Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Senate Health Bill: Lincoln, Landrieu Boost Effort To Move Ahead With Debate
By Allison BellMembers of the Senate have started debating whether they ought to debate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bill, and Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu now say they favor letting the bill come up for discussion.
November 20, 2009
PBGC Seeks Comments On Private Pension InsuranceThe Pension Benefits Guaranty Corp. is expressing concerns about use of annuities in efforts to shut down defined benefit pension plans.
November 20, 2009
Guide Charts LTC Insurance SavingsA long term care insurance industry group is offering a consumer guide to reducing the cost of LTC coverage.
November 20, 2009
Labor Withdraws Investment Advice RegsThe Obama administration has decided to cancel implementation of a final rule that was approved in January and work on rewriting and reissuing some of the regulations that were in the final rule.
November 20, 2009
Sammons Financial Group Names Dinshaw As CEOSammons Financial Group announced on Nov. 19 that Esfand Dinshaw has been named Chief Executive Officer of the West Des Moines, Iowa-based company while CIndy Reed has been promoted to President of Sammons Annuity Group.
November 20, 2009
Guide Charts LTC Insurance SavingsA long term care insurance industry group is offering a consumer guide to reducing the cost of LTC coverage.
November 20, 2009
Recession Slams SSDI Claims SystemRising unemployment rates and state budget cuts are threatening to make Social Security Disability Insurance program application backlogs even worse than they are today.
November 20, 2009
Third-Quarter Stats Pour InLife insurers had success with selling indexed annuities and whole life in the third quarter, but a tougher time with variable annuities and variable life products.