Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Regulators Fine-Tune HSA Rules
By Staff WriterThe Internal Revenue Service has come out with regulations that will affect employer-sponsored health savings account contribution programs.One provision in the final regulations, which appear ...
April 17, 2008
Lumber Company Lets DC Plan Vendor Run DB PlanRoseburg Forest Products Company has agreed to use New York Life Retirement Plan Services to administer the Carpenters Industry Council defined benefit pension plan.Roseburg Forest, ...
April 17, 2008
Think Tank Publishes Retirement Education GuideMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's Center for Behavioral Research has come out with a white paper on methods for getting workers to contribute to 401(k) ...
April 17, 2008
House Panel Supports Retirement Plan Fee Disclosure BillMembers of the House Education and Labor Committee voted 25-19 Wednesday to approve H.R. 3185, a bill that would increase 401(k) plan fee disclosure requirements.The ...
April 16, 2008
Company to pay record dividendThe Guardian Life Insurance Co. has been in existence since 1860, so it has a long history. The year 2007 will mark a record for the 146-yearold company. Participating policyholders will share in a record dividend payment of $618 million, a $41
April 16, 2008
Term life with a twistIn an effort to meet the needs of people who shy away from term life insurance because they think they may never need it, ING has introduced a return-of-premium term life policy. Designed to act like traditional term - with a fixed death benefit,
April 16, 2008
Index-linked UL product debutsCalling it a policy that appeals to business owners and those who are looking at various estate planning options, ING introduced its Indexed Strategic Accumulator Universal Life policy. In addition to a fixed component where interest credited to the
April 16, 2008
Product adds return-of-premium riderAs people age, one of the concerns they begin to struggle with is becoming a burden to their family. They look for ways to avoid that possibility, and insurance products offer solid solutions. A new benefit offered by Lincoln Benefit Life Co.