Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Wedeking Returns As LIDMA President
By Staff WriterPat Wedeking will once again be the president of the Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association.Wedeking, president of the Life Insurance Center L.L.C., Denver, which does ...
January 08, 2009
Delta Dental: Employer Plan Members Get More CareWorkers who have employer-sponsored dental benefits are more likely to see their dentists for checkups than other workers are.Researchers at the Delta Dental Plans Association, ...
January 08, 2009
Aetna: Families With Kids Put Off More CareAbout 10% of U.S. residents say they plan to put off getting care for bunions, sleeping disorders, back pain and other conditions that seem to ...
January 07, 2009
The insurance industry glass is half-emptyA.M Best agrees with the consensus view the deepest U.S. recession in decades is showing some signs of improvement. "Credit spreads have narrowed considerably for most...
January 07, 2009
VERTEX Teams With OracleA financial services technology firm will be helping customers set up Oracle Insurance Policy Administration sytems.VERTEX Inc., New Britain, Conn., has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork, ...
January 07, 2009
New Group To Joust With CarriersIndividuals who say they want to represent employers, community leaders, doctors and hospitals have formed FAIR , a group that will do battle with health ...
January 07, 2009
Health Costs Outclimb Insurance PremiumsTotal U.S. private health insurance premium expenditures increased more slowly in 2007 than overall national health expenditures increased.The insurance premium expenditure increase also lagged behind ...
January 07, 2009
Wisconsin Weighs In On Preneed MortalityA Midwestern state has become the latest to encourage funeral insurers to stick with older, more conservative life expectancy tables.Wisconsin has been permitting life insurers ...