Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
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By David PortFor advisors with senior clients, it's a familiar storyline: An insurance portfolio review exposes a client's life insurance policy as under-performing, unnecessary or unaffordable. Alan W. Pratt, CEP, CAP, has been around the insurance
May 30, 2008
Berkshire: Workers Fear DisabilityMany U.S. workers lack disability coverage, but they tend to be aware of the risk of disability.Researchers at Berkshire Life Insurance Company of America, Pittsfield, ...
May 30, 2008
Permanent insurance cash value: Cure for the credit crunchMany small business owners have greeted the mortgage-induced credit crunch with understandable worry. Obtaining the financing they need to grow is increasingly difficult, and even when they do obtain credit, it is often at high interest rates that
May 30, 2008
Fast-Growing Wholesalers Merge to Become One-Stop Shop for Life and Annuity BusinessPartners Advantage Insurance Services, LLC, and First Choice Financial, Fargo, N.D. has announced that their two companies will merge. This combines one of the top life insurance brokerages and one of the top annuity brokerages in the nation to bring
May 30, 2008
Missouri Eyes Funeral Insurer WeaknessThe Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration has hired a special counsel to look into the problems of a funeral insurer.The special ...
May 30, 2008
Ohio Lawmakers OK STOLI BillMembers of the Ohio Senate voted 95-0 Thursday to approve H.B. 404, a bill that seeks to discourage use of stranger-originated life insurance arrangements in ...
May 30, 2008
Ohio Lawmakers OK STOLI BillMembers of the Ohio Senate voted 95-0 Thursday to approve H.B. 404, a bill that seeks to discourage use of stranger-originated life insurance arrangements in ...
May 30, 2008
Missouri Eyes Funeral Insurer WeaknessThe Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration has hired a special counsel to look into the problems of a funeral insurer.The special ...