Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
How to Help Retirees Pick the Right Life Insurance: Hidden Value
By Joe ElsasserLife insurance can be a great retirement planning tool, but many clients buy more than they need.
September 20, 2018
The 5 Hungriest Benefits Cost TapewormsThis spending provides important forms of protection, but it may reduce workers' spendable, and investable, income.
September 20, 2018
Another Big Insurer Posts Another Big LTC Insurance ChargeEvercore analysts say the company could end up taking more charges.
September 19, 2018
The 3 Rights of Life Settlement ProspectingOne type of policy to consider: a survivorship UL policy with only one of the insureds still living.
September 18, 2018
The Spanish Flu Centennial — 5 Big Cities' Worst Weekly Death TollsThis year is the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that continues to shape how life insurance works.
September 18, 2018
The Spanish Flu Centennial —1918 Flu Pandemic Hit Insurers HardHealthy young men were the most likely to die.
September 18, 2018
A Look Back at the 1918 'Spanish Flu' PandemicHealthy young men were the most likely to die.
September 18, 2018
The Spanish Flu Centennial — How the 1918 Flu Pandemic Affected Prudential AgentsFor a few weeks in 1918, Prudential agents fought a desperate battle to keep death claims from piling up.