Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ACLI Finds Shaky Support For LTC Option
By Staff WriterPublic support for a long term care insurance program included in health care reform legislation drops significantly when people learn about its potential cost, a new survey finds.
October 30, 2009
Pension Terminations Rising: GAOThe recession has accelerated the terminations of single-employer defined benefit pension plans, a federal official testified to a Senate committee yesterday.
October 30, 2009
Ask The Experts: Jay GrubbWith times tough and uncertain, it's an opportunity for you to be the calm amid the storm. What are you doing right now to allay your clients' fears?
October 30, 2009
CFPA legislation to exclude life insurance, annuitiesLife insurance and annuities will be excluded from the legislation of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). The announcement came as a result of an achievement by Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Congressman Erik Paulsen (R-MN).
October 30, 2009
One Advisor's PlaybookMeet Bob Percival. He's not real, but he could be, since he's in the same industry as you and does many of the things you do. Bob has been in the senior market for 30 years. Over that time, he's served thousands of seniors and their families.
October 30, 2009
LIMRA's Kerzner forecasts the industryTo open the annual meeting of LIMRA, CEO Robert Kerzner outlined the challenges facing insurance and financial services companies in the new economic climate.
October 30, 2009
Families want security but lack insuranceIn these troubled economic times, Americans are increasingly interested in securing their financial futures but lack the appropriate financial instruments to do so, according to a survey by New York Life Insurance Company.
October 30, 2009
The opt-out optical illusion"Welcome to Washington." The beltway equivalent of Saving Private Ryan's famous FUBAR acronym. A phrase that aptly conveys the utter bewilderment at what legislators pass...