Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Regulators Question Need For Immediate Adoption Of ACLI Capital Proposal
By Jim ConnollyState insurance regulators are trying to decide how urgent changing the rules governing life insurers' capital and surplus really is.
January 26, 2009
MetLife: Long Lives Could Surprise Pension Plan SponsorsRelatively few U.S. pension managers are paying much attention to risk factors such as mortality risk, longevity risk and early retirement risk.
January 26, 2009
Exec: Actuarial Shift To Force Some Life Settlement Firms Out Of MarketRecent mortality table changes could doom some life settlement firms, according to the top executive at First Equity Benefits of America Inc.
January 26, 2009
Groups Speak Out Against OII ProposalA property-casualty association and the Coalition Opposed to a Federal Insurance Regulator are fighting efforts to create an Office of Insurance Information within the U.S. Treasury Department.
January 26, 2009
Principal: Workers Warm Up To Worksite CareEmployees may be getting more comfortable with the idea of using employer-sponsored health screening programs.
January 26, 2009
High Court Sides With Pension PlanThe U.S. Supreme Court has blocked efforts by the daughter of a DuPont Company worker to collect benefits from her late father's pension plan.
January 26, 2009
Experts To House: Including COBRA Subsidies In Recovery Bill Is A Good IdeaIn the long run, Congress should put Medicare, Social Security and the rest of the U.S. economy on sounder footing, but, in the short run, subsidizing health insurance for unemployed workers is a good idea, economists told lawmakers today.
January 26, 2009
NAIC Panel OKs Most Of ACLI PackageMembers of a National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel today heard comments about a capital and surplus rules change proposal and decided to recommend adoption of most of it.