Life Insurance
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Group Seeks To Grow LTC Insurance Production
By staff WriterA long term care insurance group has opened an effort to recruit and train up to 2,000 unemployed Americans to sell LTC insurance.
December 30, 2009
2010: A good year to die?Morbid? Yes. But we point to a front page article in the Wall Street Journal about how the temporary lapse in the estate tax is...
December 30, 2009
CBO Revises Tort Reform SavingsA new study by the Congressional Budget Office almost doubles its estimate--from 6% to 10%--of the reduction in costs of medical liability insurance through a proposed package of tort reforms.
December 29, 2009
Great American Settles With MinnesotaMinnesota's Attorney General and Great American Financial Resources announced a settlement over disputed sales of deferred annuities to seniors in the state by Great American subsidiaries.
December 29, 2009
Great American Settles With MinnesotaMinnesota's Attorney General and Great American Financial Resources announced a settlement over disputed sales of deferred annuities to seniors in the state by Great American subsidiaries.
December 29, 2009
LTC Insurance Costs Up Slightly: StudyPremiums for long term care insurance rose about 2% to $723 a year for a base plan for a 55-year-old married individual, according to a study by the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance.
December 29, 2009
Senior citizens on love and relationships16% -- Percentage of people 65 or older who say they could fall "head over heels" in love; 39 percent say they have already done so.
December 29, 2009
Five practical reasons not to retireThere are almost as many reasons to keep working as there are to retire.