Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
UL Policy Comes With Acceleration Option
By Staff WriterUnits of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. are selling an unusual benefits acceleration rider along with the new Bicentennial Freedom UL and Bicentennial Joint Freedom ...
October 24, 2008
Brokerage Enters Secondary Life MarketFinancial professionals have formed Global Life Solutions L.L.C., a new life settlment brokerage firm.Jerry Claiborne, vice president of sales and marketing at Global Life Solutions, ...
October 24, 2008
IRS Adjusts Plan LimitsThe Internal Revenue Service has applied 2009 tax-year inflation adjustments to dollar limitations for 401(k) plan contributions and other items.The adjustments are required by Section ...
October 23, 2008
Boomers underestimate disability60% - Percentage of boomers who will be managing more than one chronic condition by 2030.* 46% - Percentage of boomers who are concerned...
October 23, 2008
Hard times lead prescription declineAs the cost of necessities like food and gas rise -- along with everything else -- more people are trying to decide which of their...
October 23, 2008
DI Day Organizers Court ProducersAn insurance marketing organization recently brought 300 agents and brokers to Prior Lake, Minn., to increase their interest in protecting workers' incomes against the threat ...
October 23, 2008
Jury Weighs In On SSDI ProgramA disability insurer says it is appealing a mixed Social Security Disability Insurance assistance program verdict delivered Wednesday by a federal court jury in Boston.The ...
October 23, 2008
Regulator: Reserve Shift Effort Nears MilestoneThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners could have a new version of the Standard Valuation Law ready for consideration by state legislators by January 2010.Leslie ...