Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Stories From The JHA DI Conference
By Allison Bell"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 11, 2009
N.Y. Life Goes MobileNew York Life Insurance Company now is making many of its Web services available through cellular telephones and through other hand-held mobile devices.
March 11, 2009
MIB: First Activity Increase Since 2007U.S. life insurers received 1% more requests for individual coverage in February than they received in February 2008 - and 15% more for applicants ages 60 and older.
March 11, 2009
Renaissance Dental Plan Targets RetireesA Michigan insurer is offering employers an individual dental insurance product designed for retirees.
March 11, 2009
Witness Quantifies Cost ShiftingCommercial health insurers might be able to cut rates 18% if other payers would pick up their fair share of the tab for hospital care.
March 11, 2009
Guardian Expands Voluntary Life OptionsA life insurer has started offering inflation protection and automatic buy-up options for its voluntary, employee-paid group life plans in the small and midsize employer market.
March 11, 2009
Kanjorski Schedules AIG HearingA House panel will be putting American International Group Inc. under the microscope at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
March 11, 2009
Milliman: Pension Funding FallsThe "funded ratio" of the 100 largest U.S. defined benefit pension plans fell to about 72% at the end of February, down from about 100% a year earlier.