Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
MDRT Announces Eligibility Levels
By Staff WriterU.S. life insurance agents will have to earn more this year to qualify for the 2009 Million Dollar Round Table.The MDRT, Park Ridge, Ill., has ...
January 03, 2008
Assurant Arranges For Access To Great-West ProvidersA player in the individual, family and small group markets is giving members in-network access to more doctors and hospitals.Assurant Health, Milwaukee, a unit of ...
January 03, 2008
Humana Teams With American SpecialtyA health insurer has selected a wellness program for some of its Medicare plan members.Humana Inc., Louisville, Ky., has agreed to use the Silver&Fit "fitness ...
January 03, 2008
Gen Re Clarifies Critical Illness Claims ProcessA reinsurer is trying to help the people who handle critical illness insurance claims understand key policy definition terms.Gen Re LifeHealth, a unit of General ...
January 02, 2008
IRS Sets Filing Rules For Charitable Trusts Hit By ChangeThe Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance aimed at charitable trusts that have turned into private foundations as a result of provisions of the Pension ...
January 01, 2008
Social Security 2008$2,185: Amount of the top monthly benefit as of Jan. 1, up 2.3% from 2007. 102,000: Maximum annual earnings subject to Social Security tax in 2008, up from $97,500 in 2007. Source: SSA
January 01, 2008
Weaving stronger baskets"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."--Old English Proverb Stockbrokers, bankers, money managers and other financial professionals are quite talented at helping clients maximize their financial assets. While they may know enough to help their
January 01, 2008
Want financial success? Quit reading.I was going through some old magazines I had saved for one reason or another when I came across an article in the Aug. 14, 2000 issue of Fortune, entitled "10 stocks to last the decade." The timing of the article was interesting. We were five months