Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Survey Shows STOLI Is Among Reinsurers' Top Concerns
By Jim ConnollyStranger-originated life insurance, concentration risk, and the credit risk crisis were 3 of the top concerns reinsurers and retrocessionaires mentioned as having the "most profound ...
February 03, 2008
States Begin Activity On STOLI BillsMajor states--including California, New York and Ohio--are poised to put in place laws designed to eradicate stranger-originated life insurance and over 20 jurisdictions in total ...
February 03, 2008
N.Y. Settlement Case Going To TrialA case involving the immediate sale of a life policy and insurable interest will go to trial in New York after a federal judge denied ...
February 03, 2008
N.Y. Settlement Case Going To TrialA case involving the immediate sale of a life policy and insurable interest will go to trial in New York after a federal judge denied ...
February 03, 2008
Take The StageSeminars have never been easy but with costs rising, audience sophistication growing and regulators cracking down, this time-tested marketing tool is in need of a ...
February 03, 2008
Team Planning: A Winning Strategy To Attract Young WorkersThe financial services industry is gearing up for critical staffing challenges. Many veteran insurance agents are readying for retirement just as the demand for financial ...
February 02, 2008
Rating Agency Gives Carriers Clean Bill Of HealthU.S. life insurers should emerge from the current financial turmoil largely unscathed, according to analysts at Moody's Investors Service.The life industry as a whole has ...
February 02, 2008
9-Month Operating Earnings Hit Record High For IndustryOperating earnings rose 16% in the first 9 months of 2007 for the Townsend 100 U.S. life insurance companies, which hold for 84% of industry assets.