Life Insurance
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Insurer Reports Life Settlement Loss
By staff WriterAXIS Capital Holdings expects third quarter operating results will suffer after an increase of about $136 million in the fair value liability of contract tied to life settlements.
October 16, 2009
Workers Fret More About Money: PruPeople rate job security and making ends meet as their top financial concerns, according to a study by Prudential Financial Inc.
October 16, 2009
Insurer Reports Life Settlement LossAXIS Capital Holdings expects third quarter operating results will suffer after an increase of about $136 million in the fair value liability of contract tied to life settlements.
October 16, 2009
Calif. Group Blasts Settlement LawRalph Simoni, a lobbyist for California Life Settlement Association, says the group opposed a life settlement law recently enacted in the state because it lacks consumer protections.
October 16, 2009
Fitch: NAIC Risk Plan Won't Affect RatingsNational Association of Insurance Commissioners efforts to change the way residential mortgage-backed securities are treated in risk-based capital calculations may have little effect on Fitch Ratings' assessments of U.S. life insurers.
October 15, 2009
Standard Promotes Retirement SavingsAn insurer is trying to get participants in 401(k) plans and other types of retirement plans, such as 403(b) plans, back on the offensive.
October 15, 2009
House Gears Up For Reconciliation ManeuverThe House Ways and Means Committee has agreed to send H.R. 3200, the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, to the House Budget Committee.
October 15, 2009
Broker: Big Carriers Set Health RatesCongress should be paying more attention to the effects of insurer consolidation on health coverage rates, a benefits broker says.