Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Do You Love Your Job? (And Would You Still Love It With 10 Years to Live?)
By Christina PellettA simple hypothetical situation sheds more light on your career satisfaction than you might think.
January 04, 2010
GASB Sets Public Retiree Health Benefits GuidelinesThe Governmental Accounting Standards Board has weighed in on how government agencies should account for the post-retirement health benefits they have promised their employees.
January 04, 2010
Redesigned annuities hit marketplaceA string of redesigned variable annuities are hitting the market, after life insurers last year yanked the products that proved too generous to customers and...
January 04, 2010
IRS Announces Plan Funding Method RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has come up with procedures for providing automatic approval for some retirement plan funding changes resulting from plan takeovers and changes in pension valuation software.
January 04, 2010
AIG Loses Exec, Wins TARP Comp RulingAmerican International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) says it is losing a vice chairman as a result of government compensation restrictions but has won permission to improve the comp package of an executive who is staying.
January 04, 2010
Oregon Health Carrier To Scoop Up NeighborPacificSource Charitable Foundation Inc., which does business as PacificSource Health Plans, hopes to acquire Clear One Health Plans Inc. for $46 million in cash.
January 04, 2010
Feds Issue Electronic Health Record DraftThe federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has helped to develop proposed regulations that could pave the way for increased hospital and physician use of electronic health record systems.