Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life sales down 11 percent
By Mercedes JacksonAccording to LIMRA's sales survey, the new annualized premium for individual life insurance dropped 11 percent in the third quarter. "Variable life (VL) and variable universal life (VUL) products saw the steepest decline, plunging 33
December 04, 2008
Frank: Congress To Move On CDS ReservesLawmakers likely will move to impose new requirements on companies involved in the credit default swaps market, according to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.Frank, chairman of ...
December 04, 2008
Principal Offers Business Owner Analysis ToolAn insurer has come up with a process that producers can use to start conversations with business owners.Principal Financial Group Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, says ...
December 04, 2008
Golden Rule Policy Insures Access To InsuranceHealthy consumers who worry about their future insurability have a new option for locking in their ability to have individual coverage in the future.Golden Rule, ...
December 04, 2008
Empire State Official Rules On Annuity GuaranteesIf a consumer buys a New York annuity while living out of state, then moves to New York before the issuer fails, the New York ...
December 04, 2008
Empire State Official Rules On Annuity GuaranteesIf a consumer buys a New York annuity while living out of state, then moves to New York before the issuer fails, the New York ...
December 04, 2008
Transamerica Re To Serve BrazilA reinsurer with headquarters in the United States has received official permission to act as an admitted life and personal insurance reinsurer in Brazil.The reinsurer, ...
December 04, 2008
Pru Hopes To Cash In Securities Firm StakeExecutives at Prudential Financial Inc. say the company wants to sell its stake in Wachovia Securities to the other co-owner.The other co-owner, which has a ...