Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Feature: Ohio department shelves demand for detailed data on settlements
By Trevor ThomasThe Ohio Department of Insurance has withdrawn its call for detailed information about life settlement deals completed by brokers doing business in the state. Here's what is happening.
March 08, 2009
Quick tips: Where the settlement industry needs to improveSettlement professionals can use these tips to improve the life settlement industry in 2009.
March 08, 2009
Quiz question: life insurance apps for the 60-and-up age groupThis article answer the question of how life insurance application activity has changed, for applicants age 60 and up, from January 2008 to January 2009.
March 08, 2009
AIG: If We Fall, So Do Many Life InsurersAmerican International Group Inc. has told regulators that letting it fail could cause "turmoil in the U.S. economy and global markets" and wipe out "a number of U.S. life insurers."
March 08, 2009
Editorial comment: Ohio settlement "data call" was anti-consumerThis editorial addresses why the Ohio Department of Insurance's recent "data call" for life settlement and sensitive policyholder information was anti-consumer and anti-business.
March 08, 2009
Feature: Ohio department shelves demand for detailed data on settlementsThe Ohio Department of Insurance has withdrawn its call for detailed information about life settlement deals completed by brokers doing business in the state. Here's what is happening.
March 06, 2009
Calif. Bill Aims At Health Insurance PricingA bill introduced in the California state legislature would require health insurance companies to provide greater amounts of loss experience information.
March 06, 2009
Regulators List Top Insurance GripesThe top 3 complaints consumers had about their insurance companies in 2008 were delays, denials of claims and unsatisfactory settlement offers.