Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Feds Struggle To Fix Disability Determination Process
By Staff WriterThe Social Security Administration is suspending much of a disability claim reform effort it has been testing in Boston.The Boston pilot program, launched in 2006, ...
January 20, 2008
Show The Value Of The UL With A No-Lapse GuaranteeQuick! Which company has the lowest guaranteed annual premium on a universal life with no-lapse guarantee (ULNLG) for a male, age 50, $1 million death ...
January 20, 2008
10 Ways To Make Multi-Life Disability Sales MultiplyAs employers continue to struggle with rising health costs, they're looking for opportunities to enhance employee benefit plans to satisfy a restless work force and ...
January 20, 2008
Keeping Index Life Out Of Hot WaterThe index annuity market has some lessons for insurance companies and advisors who are now expanding into sale of index life insurance.Those lessons are rooted ...
January 20, 2008
Multitasking: The Revenge Of The MachinesIt may surprise, or even shock some of you that I would say this, but "multitasking" is a highly overrated characteristic in this day and ...
January 18, 2008
GAO: Controlling Entitlements Takes Bipartisan ConsensusReducing the exposure of the U.S. government to future Social Security and Medicare liabilities will take great political leadership.David Walker, comptroller general of the United ...
January 18, 2008
Agency Announces Rating ActionsStandard & Poor's Ratings Services has changed the ratings of 2 life insurers.S&P, New York, has cut the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of ...
January 18, 2008
IRS: Stop Using 529 Plans To Evade Gift TaxThe Internal Revenue Service wants to limit taxpayers' ability to make creative use of college savings program tax breaks.The IRS is getting ready to write ...