Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
NAIC OKs Budget, Elects Officers
By Jim ConnollyMembers of the plenary of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a body that includes all voting NAIC members, voted unanimously Tuesday to pass the ...
December 05, 2007
FRC: International Funds Lead In OctoberInvestors withdrew $5.3 billion more from domestic stock mutual funds in October than they put into the funds.The $5.3 billion net outflow compares with a ...
December 05, 2007
Stark Blasts Bush Stand On Medicare Advantage OversightRep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., has criticized Bush administration opposition to efforts to give states authority over Medicare Advantage plan marketing practices.Stark, chairman of the House ...
December 04, 2007
High Court Move Lets States Regulate Life SettlementsThe U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case that could have challenged the extent to which states can regulate life settlements.The court's move ...
December 04, 2007
Empire State Protests Hospital Admission Notice RuleThe New York State Insurance Department says a carrier wants to require hospitals to alert it within 24 hours after member patients have been admitted.The ...
December 04, 2007
MIB: Buyers Submit Fewer ApplicationsU.S. life insurers may have received fewer requests for individual coverage in October than they did in October 2006.The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says ...
December 04, 2007
LIDMA Presents Vision AwardThe Life Insurance Direct Marketing Association has given the LIDMA Vision Award to Fidelity Life Association.Fidelity Life, Oak Brook, Ill., received the award for the ...
December 04, 2007
Kansas Seeks Risk Pool VendorThe Kansas Health Insurance Association is seeking bids from health carriers and benefit plan administrators that want to run the Kansas Uninsurable Health Insurance Plan.The ...