Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Millman: Low Rates Reverse Pension Funding Gains
By Staff WriterThe 100 biggest publicly traded U.S. companies with defined benefit pension plans ended the first quarter with about 100% of the assets they need to ...
April 16, 2008
Kanjorski Announces Interim Federal Regulator Bill-UpdatedA key lawmaker says he is about to start the process of establishing a federal insurance regulatory agency.Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa.., chairman of the House ...
April 16, 2008
Humana Opens Arizona Call CenterA health insurer is about to celebrate the completion of an office that supports its mail-order prescription drug service.Humana Inc., Louisville, Ky., will be opening ...
April 16, 2008
Minnesota Carrier To Market Delta Dental CoverageMedica Health Plans has introduced a dental insurance program for Medica individual health plan members ages 18 to 64.The Medica Direct Dental for Individuals program ...
April 16, 2008
Express Scripts: Consumers Pay Less For PrescriptionsU.S. residents are responding to incentives to use generic drugs.Researchers at Express Scripts Inc., St. Louis, a pharmacy benefit manager, has published figures supporting that ...
April 16, 2008
Disability Insurer Completes Claims Reassessment ProcessUnum Group Corp. has paid about $676 million in extra benefits to claimants in connection with a review of past claims decisions, officials say.Unum, Chattanooga, ...
April 15, 2008
Reverse mortgages still gaining tractionAs current and future retirees look for more ways to finance a comfortable retirement, reverse mortgages are gaining more time in the spotlight. No less a Hollywood icon than James Garner can be seen on TV speaking out in favor of reverse mortgages.
April 15, 2008
Life sales off in AugustApplications for individually underwritten life insurance were down by 3.7 percent in North America for the month of August, according to the MIB Life Index, a monthly measure of such activity. U.S. activity declined 4.8 percent yearover- year;