Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
California Official Settles Annuity Suitability Action
By Staff WriterAn insurer has resolved a West Coast annuity investigation by agreeing to offer refunds to some customers, add a screening process for future buyers, and ...
February 14, 2008
Sun Life To Send Extra Benefits To Seriously Ill LTD ClaimantsAn insurer will be helping some long-term disability insureds compensate for the effects of the coverage elimination period.Sun Life Financial U.S., Wellesley Hills, Mass., a ...
February 13, 2008
CMS Chief Vows To Toughen Medicare Plan Sales StandardsThe head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services promised today that CMS will take swift action to root out abusive Medicare Advantage plan ...
February 13, 2008
LIDMA Puts Direct Life Standards Plan Into ActionThe Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association says some insurers and producers are implementing the recommendations it has developed for streamlining direct sales efforts.The "process improvement" ...
February 13, 2008
LIDMA Puts Direct Life Standards Plan Into ActionThe Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association says some insurers and producers are implementing the recommendations it has developed for streamlining direct sales efforts.The "process improvement" ...
February 13, 2008
HR Group Asks IRS For Automatic Enrollment ReliefThe Internal Revenue Service should give employers more help with complying with new retirement plan tax laws.Cara Woodson Welch, public policy director at WorldatWork, Washington, ...
February 13, 2008
Mutual Of Omaha Adds Default Investment OptionsA Midwestern company has introduced target-date maturity funds and an individually managed account option designed for retirement plan participants who fail to make their own ...
February 13, 2008
Protective Life Buys Back StockAn insurer has started to use its authority to invest in its own shares.The board of Protective Life Corp., Birmingham, Ala., set aside $100 million ...