Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Faced With A Hostile Takeover? Fight Back With A Rabbi (Trust)
By Warren S. HerschWhen a business falls under new management as a result of a merger or acquisition, its executives may well have reason to worry. Apart from ...
June 01, 2008
Dealing With an Inveterate LiarThankfully, there aren't many people in our midst who are able to act dishonestly and destructively without guilt or remorse. Research on these truly disturbed...
June 01, 2008
Heating Up the DiscussionWhile industry trade groups are opposed to the mandatory disclosure requirements of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Proposal, groups such...
June 01, 2008
Telling All?Now that climate change seems to be on everyone's lips, the talk in the insurance industry is getting hot about disclosure. The fallout from trying to...
June 01, 2008
Turning the TablesI've always had a nerdy fascination with financial products: what they're "made" of, how they're structured, and (my favorite) where the various fees and expenses...
May 31, 2008
Term product updatedAmerican United Life Insurance Co., a OneAmerica company, has announced the release of a new term life insurance product. Called American Protector Plus, the policy is the first of four products OneAmerica companies will be updating and improving in
May 31, 2008
VUL product offers guaranteesDeath benefit protection and cash accumulation potential. Two of the biggest reasons many people look to permanent life insurance products to solve so many of their financial planning problems. Nationwide Financial has entered the variable universal
May 31, 2008
States implement senior protectionIowa and Kansas have become the latest states to implement legislation aimed at protecting seniors from unscrupulous life insurance sales practices. Legislators in those states are taking aim at stranger-originated life insurance, the practice of