Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Going One Step Further: Large Initial Premium VUL
By Jack KenneyA new life insurance design--the large initial premium variable universal life (LPVUL) policy--offers benefits and advantages over typical single premium variable universal life (SPVUL) policies.Further, ...
March 08, 2008
AHIP: Boomers Underestimate Disability RiskOnly about 25% of U.S. adults ages 44 to 62 know roughly how likely U.S. workers are to be disabled for 3 months or more.Researchers ...
March 08, 2008
Notice Gives 21 Answers To Common PPA QuestionsA new batch of guidance could be of interest to retirement plan advisors, pension plan actuaries and others.The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2008-30 ...
March 08, 2008
Feds Could Lighten Trust Unrelated Income PenaltiesRelief could be on the way for charitable remainder trusts that intentionally or unintentionally earn substantial amounts of unrelated business taxable income.The Internal Revenue Service ...
March 08, 2008
Personnel Changes: American United, Principal, OthersAmerican United Life Insurance Company has hired Karen Betts to be vice president of marketing for its AUL Retirement Services unit.AUL is a subsidiary of ...
March 08, 2008
Pension Disability Mortality Table May Get UpdateThe Internal Revenue Service is thinking about developing new mortality tables for pension plan participants who are collecting benefits because of disability.The IRS wants to ...
March 08, 2008
Carrier Adds Group Disability School SessionsHartford Life has added Boston, Chicago and Dallas to the 2008 schedule for the Vault program.Hartford Life, Simsbury, Conn., a unit of Hartford Financial Services ...
March 08, 2008
MIB: Buyers Submit Fewer ApplicationsU.S. life insurers may have received fewer requests for individual coverage in January than they did in January 2007.[@@The MIB Group Inc., Braintree, Mass., says ...