Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
JHA Finds Disability Sales Rising As Group Life Sales Flatten
By Staff WriterInsurers seemed to have an easier time increasing U.S. disability insurance sales in 2007 than they had growing group life sales.The difference shows up 2007 ...
May 04, 2008
DOL Clarifies Rules On Qualified Default Investment AlternativesThe Department of Labor last week provided "significant" relief to insurers and others who offered default investment alternatives to beneficiaries of retirement plans prior to ...
May 04, 2008
Credit Crunch Taking A Toll On The Settlement MarketThe settlement market first felt the impact of the credit crunch last fall, as providers purchasing off lines of credit found themselves at the mercy ...
May 04, 2008
HSA Enrollment Up 35% In Last YearHealth Savings Account enrollment grew 35% to 6.1 million between January 2007 and the present, according to a survey commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans.At ...
May 04, 2008
New York Life's Sy Sternberg Reflects On His TenureOn June 30, Sy Sternberg, chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Company, will retire after an 11-year tenure that started on April 1, ...
May 04, 2008
Pace Of Anti-STOLI Legislation Picks UpEfforts to put legislation in place that will curb stranger-originated life insurance transactions are intensifying as legislative sessions are in full throttle."There has been tremendous ...
May 04, 2008
The Evolution Of Settlements: From Niche Market To Mainstream OptionIt turns out that Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species sets forth a theory of evolution that applies not only to the plant and animal ...
May 04, 2008
Market For Smaller Face Policies Is Starting To EmergeAs the secondary market for life insurance policies continues to grow, life settlement providers have begun taking steps towards bringing smaller face value policies into ...