Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Using Premium Finance To Assist Corporations In Freeing Intrinsic Value
By Grace BarnardIn estate planning, the cost of insurance coverage is often not the roadblock to completing the sale; rather it is the unwillingness of the individual ...
June 08, 2008
Disclaiming: A Powerful And Flexible Estate Planning ToolThe disclaimer option is a commonly overlooked yet powerful postmortem estate-planning vehicle available to most beneficiaries, personal representatives and other appointed executors. By definition, a ...
June 08, 2008
NAIC Data Collection Scuffle ContinuesA controversial proposal to collect data and store it nationally with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners continued to draw criticism even as regulators insisted ...
June 07, 2008
A Strategy And Trust For Tax-Uncertain TimesThe change in control of Congress from Republican to Democratic, coupled with a new president occupying the White House in 2009, may mean a change in the tax code. Certainly, the federal estate tax code will need to be addressed before...
June 06, 2008
Highmark Recasts Health Tech InitiativeA Pennsylvania health carrier says it will help pay for doctors in its hometown to upgrade their technology even if it cannot do so through ...
June 05, 2008
401(k) run-down33.9%: Percentage of people between 55 and 64 who owned an IRA at the end of 2005. 2.7%: Percentage of workers without a high school diploma who have an IRA, compared with 46.5 percent of those with a graduate degree. 15.4%: Percentag
June 05, 2008
Aetna Puts ValuePick On Arizona MenuA health insurer is introducing a set of products aimed at small employers in the Grand Canyon State.Aetna Inc., Hartford, says options for Arizona employers ...
June 05, 2008
MIB Rolls Out Web-Based Coding ManualAn underwriting information consortium has published a new version of a reference tool.MIB Inc., a unit of MIB Group Inc., Braintree, Mass., says the MIB ...