Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Industry Hails Genetic Nondiscrimination Bill
By Matt BradyInsurance industry groups are hailing genetic nondiscrimination legislation that the Senate passed April 24 by a 95 to 0 vote.The legislation, known as the Genetic ...
April 27, 2008
GAO: Administration Overstepped Authority On SCHIP LimitationsMembers of the Senate Finance Committee were celebrating a legal opinion by the Government Accountability Office declaring a letter from the Centers for Medicare and ...
April 27, 2008
Turn Orphan Management Into Client MarketingIn 2006, my managing partner asked me to develop an effective orphan management program. But instead of focusing on yet another orphan program which has ...
April 27, 2008
Fitch: U.S. Life Insurers Will Weather Any Commercial Mortgage DownturnU.S. life insurers' exposure to any downturn in the commercial mortgage backed market will be manageable and will not affect ratings although investment losses could ...
April 27, 2008
Panel Looks At Why Voluntary Market Keeps GrowingWhat are the current trends in today's worksite marketplace?For one thing, life insurance continues to be one of the most popular voluntary benefits. In fact, ...
April 25, 2008
Biggest retirement mistakesListening to the wrong people. Not understanding the tax consequences for investments, IRAs, pensions and other retirement products. Choosing the wrong pension option. Misunderstanding what Medicare and Social Security does and doesn't pay for
April 25, 2008
CMS Releases Risk Pool Grant RuleThe federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has completed work on a regulation that affects the state-sponsored pools that insure residents who have difficulty ...
April 25, 2008
Fund Inflows DeclineMutual funds took in $25 billion more assets than they lost in March, down from $36 billion in net inflow in March 2006.Domestic stock funds ...