Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
VA Reserve Rule Advances After A Decade
By Jim ConnollyAfter nearly a decade of work and many incarnations, a reserving guideline for variable annuities with guarantees took a major step toward adoption by the ...
August 20, 2008
PPO Rules Pondered In Texas: ReportThe Texas Department of Insurance is considering assuming oversight of paid provider organizations, a research firm reports.HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a unit of Decision Resources Inc., Waltham, Mass., ...
August 20, 2008
Health Insurer Offers Latino SupportA unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has started a health benefits program aimed at Hispanics.UnitedHealthcare, Minnetonka, Minn., says its new PlanBien program aims at improving ...
August 20, 2008
EBRI Probes Gen X and Y Financial ConcernsMembers of Generation X and Generation Y are more focused on immediate items such as paying bills than on longer-term issues such as retirement or ...
August 19, 2008
Pentegra Scoops Up Most Of RSGroupOne bank retirement services vendor is in the process of acquiring another bank retirement services vendor.Pentegra Retirement Services, White Plains, N.Y., says it already has ...
August 19, 2008
IRS Collects Accounting Change RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has published a guide to getting automatic IRS consent for changes in accounting methods.The guide, given in IRS Revenue Procedure 2008-52, ...
August 19, 2008
Business Environment Seen Impacting SettlementsSeveral factors affected the life settlement business at National Financial Partners Corp. in the second quarter, according to Doug Hammond.Hammond, chief operating officer of National ...
August 19, 2008
Business Environment Seen Impacting SettlementsSeveral factors affected the life settlement business at National Financial Partners Corp. in the second quarter, according to Doug Hammond.Hammond, chief operating officer of National ...