Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
The Future of Long Term Care Insurance
By Staff WriterWhat changes are in store for the long term care insurance market in 2010? Two leading experts share their outlook in Part 1 of a preview to ASJ's complete insurance market outlook, which will appear in our upcoming January 2010 national print edition.
December 14, 2009
The Time Is Right For A Fraternal RenaissanceConsider this scenario: Widespread lack of trust in large financial institutions, a prolonged economic slump and a resurgence in the collective yearning for the ties that unite and define us.
December 14, 2009
Ask the expert: What about privacy?This article answers the question: My client is a good candidate for a life settlement. However, he has asked about the privacy of his medical information during the transaction. How do I advise him on this point?
December 14, 2009
Did you know: Life insurance applications are upData from The MIB Group Inc., Braintree, Mass., showing that life insurance applications were up in October 2009.
December 14, 2009
Estate tax bill deliberations underwayMembers of the House voted 220-200 to pass H.R. 4154, a bill that would make the 2009 45% estate tax rate and $3.5 million per person exemption permanent. The bill now goes to the Senate
December 14, 2009
Quiz question: States regulating settlementsThis article answers the question: With the recent passage of the Life Settlement Act by the state of New York, how many states now have some regulation of life settlements?
December 14, 2009
Ask the expert: What about privacy?This article answers the question: My client is a good candidate for a life settlement. However, he has asked about the privacy of his medical information during the transaction. How do I advise him on this point?
December 14, 2009
U.S. Must Focus On Jobs: SurveyA new survey about New Year's resolutions shows Americans continue to have mixed feelings about their own financial future, as well as the country's.