Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Change And Challenge--Without The Neon
By Jim ConnollyOn the evening of Nov. 4 as I stood in the heart of Times Square watching our new President-elect Barack Obama deliver his acceptance speech ...
November 16, 2008
Trying To Keep The Recession Blues From Creating LTD Red InkBack in the 1980s and early 1990s, increases in disability claims seemed to go hand in hand with increases in unemployment rates. Disability insurers responded ...
November 16, 2008
Selling Consumer Directed Health Plans? You Need To Get The Buy-InWith open enrollment underway, customized consumer directed health plans are a way to increase your business and stay ahead of the competition.I've been in the ...
November 16, 2008
Help Clients Avoid These Common Life Insurance Planning MistakesThere are, it seems, countless ways that individuals and businesses can get hit with a painful income or estate tax hit if they're not mindful ...
November 16, 2008
Variable Life Design ObjectivesAIG American General Life Protection Advantage VULFlexible Death Benefit Guarantee to Lifetime; Low Premiums to Endow; GMDB Automatic Adjustment Feature; Rolling Targets; GMDB as a ...
November 16, 2008
AALU's Outlook For The New CongressAn optional federal charter for life insurers appears to be "inevitable" in the next Congress, according to officials of life insurance trade groups, but they ...
November 16, 2008
Question For Hard Times: Will Online Selling Displace Agents?In these times of economic hardship, even the normally solid insurance industry is being hurt, and that includes the technology sector of our relatively placid ...
November 16, 2008
Full Disclosure Variable Life ReportThis is the last individual variable life edition of Full Disclosure in which companies can include products utilizing the 1980 CSO mortality table. Fixed products ...