Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Fool's Gold
By Steve PiontekThe headline above describes how I feel about the glimmers of "evidence" being put forth by some economists and commentators that the Great Recession is starting to wind down and could be history by year-end
September 06, 2009
The Key Is To Diversify Individual Life SalesHistorically, the economy has had little impact on individual life insurance sales. Good or bad, individual life insurance sales have fared pretty evenly
September 06, 2009
Life/QLTC Combinations Pique Surprising InterestAs the January 1, 2010 effective date of the Pension Protection Act approaches, the growing interest in combination annuity/long term care policies comes as no surprise
September 06, 2009
Why Do We Always Seem To Buy High And Sell Low?Whether it is life insurance or investments, our clients always want what may be working now rather than keeping their focus on the future. It's called the fear versus greed curve
September 06, 2009
A Good Time To Bone Up On Nonforfeiture, Other Policy FeaturesEspecially in this "new economy," life insurance professionals need to be very familiar with nonforfeiture benefits and other policyholder-friendly features of life insurance products
September 06, 2009
Make The Challenging Economy A Springboard For OpportunityConsumer spending is down significantly and that extends to life insurance
September 04, 2009
TriZetto Wins ContractClear Choice Health Plans Inc. has hired an outside firm to handle claims administration, enrollment administration, billing, mailroom services and other business services.
September 04, 2009
Sterling Taps ChesapeakeA West Coast firm has started using a new family of products to handle treasury management functions.