Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
People Don't Need To Own Their Own Life Insurance? Hogwash!
By Donald S. HardyHow can it be that a nation of supposedly highly educated citizens has 68 million adults with no life insurance?This number came from LIMRA International, ...
December 16, 2007
Second Bush Veto For SCHIP BillPresident Bush's second veto of Children's Health Insurance Program legislation drew sharp criticism from Democratic leaders in Congress, who promised to continue to work on ...
December 16, 2007
Study Challenges Conventional Approach To Asset AllocationIncorporating a fixed income annuity into a retirement income account yields greater long-term wealth and income security for boomer investors than does a portfolio comprising ...
December 16, 2007
People Don't Need To Own Their Own Life Insurance? Hogwash!How can it be that a nation of supposedly highly educated citizens has 68 million adults with no life insurance?This number came from LIMRA International, ...
December 16, 2007
Ordinary Life: What's Been Selling In 2007?Ordinary life has been around for 164 years, and it isn't about to go away. I myself have been working on it for 51 years, ...
December 15, 2007
Personnel Changes: Penn Mutual, Munich Re, OthersDaniel Toran, president of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, will retire Dec. 31, the company says.Toran has been president of Penn Mutual, Horsham, Pa., since ...
December 15, 2007
Unum Sets Up Credit FacilityA disability insurer has obtained a new source of financing.Units of Wachovia Corp., Charlotte, N.C., and Bank of America Corp., Charlotte, have established a $400 ...
December 15, 2007
IRS Issues 2-Percent Shareholder Health Cost RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has come out with an interpretation that could affect the ability of some S corporation shareholder-employees to deduct health insurance premiums.The ...