Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Lawmakers Give OFC Bill Details
By Arthur D. PostalAn upcoming federal insurance regulation bill could create a national system of regulation and supervision for nationally registered insurers, agencies, and producers, according to the bill's authors.
February 10, 2009
Life insurers cope with fourth-quarter lossesU.S. life insurers are being hit by charges to boost reserves for variable annuity equity market guarantees, according to Reuters news service. Principal Financial, Lincoln National...
February 10, 2009
Service To Combine Health Data, AnalysisA health risk assessment vendor is teaming with a worksite clinic operator.
February 10, 2009
Negotiators Slash COBRA SubsidyBudget hawks in the Senate have persuaded Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to cut $5 billion in health benefits continuation aid from the latest version of the economic stimulus package.
February 10, 2009
Settlement Firm To Handle Large Term PoliciesThe Life Settlement Company of America L.L.C. is offering to broker settlement agreements for renewable level-term life policies.
February 10, 2009
Firm Fills Income Protection GapsDisability RMS has designed two new types of disability insurance products.
February 10, 2009
Letter to the editor: group policies are growing fastIn a letter to the editor of LTC e-Wire, Phyllis Shelton, president of LTC Consultants and LTCiTraining.com Hendersonville, Tenn., disagrees with points made in a January 2009 LTC e-Wire article, "Gaining traction for LTC insurance."
February 10, 2009
MIB: Application Activity FallsU.S. life insurers received fewer requests for individual coverage in January than they received in January 2008.