Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ING Unit Wins Contract Renewal
By Staff WriterThe Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has agreed to stick with a retirement services provider.
March 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2009
Letter to the editor: What is really needed to unleash the long term care marketIn a letter to the editor, Steve Moses of the Center for Long Term Care Reform, Inc., spells out what it will take for long term care insurance market to see major growth. Medicaid will need to stop being the major payer, he says.
March 09, 2009
Industry leaders welcome new online 'LTC Guild'In what could be deemed the MySpace of LTCI, a new online "LTC Guild" offers long term care insurance professionals a chance to gather for...
March 09, 2009
CMS Clashes With Insurers Over CodingThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it will be adjusting for private Medicare plan operators' tendency to "upcode" the severity of plan members' health problems.
March 09, 2009
Carrier Slashes Underwriting TimeState Life Insurance Company is updating its Asset-Care whole life insurance policy.
March 09, 2009
Harris: Neglect Rates Change LittleThe percentage of U.S. adults who blame finances for skipped health care may not have changed much this year.