Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Tool Measures Retirement Readiness
By Staff WriterA Midwestern financial services company has come out with a new tool that financial professionals can use with prospective defined contribution plan sponsors.
March 13, 2009
Towers Perrin Warns On PensionsA typical large defined benefit pension plan may have ended February with only 60% of the assets needed to cover pension obligations.
March 13, 2009
Reinsurer Pays PAT HoldersScottish Re Group Ltd. says it has met its obligations relating to a series of certificates.
March 13, 2009
Stories From The JHA DI Conference"We're in the worst economy in our lifetime, and I don't think it's going to get better in the next year," Reed Holden, president of Holden Advisors Corp., Concord, Mass., said at a conference here.
March 13, 2009
Disability Insurance Duo: --Legislation With Wide-Ranging Effects; --Marketing Efforts To Raise AwarenessPassage of a stimulus bill provision that will help laid-off workers continue group health coverage is the benefits event that has gotten the most attention in recent weeks.
March 13, 2009
Personnel Changes: Assurant, NAVA, OthersAssurant Inc. has named John Roberts president of the Assurant Employee Benefits unit. Read about that move and other promotions and hires here.
March 12, 2009
Individual LTCI premium falls 23 percent in fourth quarter"Historically, individual products have emerged relatively unscathed from the effects of a recession," says Karen Fisherkeller, LIMRA associate analyst, Group and LTC Product Research. Now,...
March 12, 2009
Fort Dearborn Life Works With IQXAn insurer has asked a Canadian company to help it develop a Web-based rating and quotation system for group dental, disability and life products.