Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Frank Fights For Broader TRIA Bill
By Arthur D. PostalThere is still a chance that Congress could take on President Bush and put group life back into a bill extending the federal terrorism risk ...
October 30, 2007
FINRA OKs Variable Life Settlement Broker-DealerThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has given Invescor Wholesale BD Inc. permission to expand into the secondary life insurance market.FINRA, Washington, is a broker-dealer group ...
October 30, 2007
Recent Social Security cost-of-living adjustments2008: 2.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,079 will see increase of $24 per month) 2007: 3.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,011 saw increase of $33 per month) 2006: 4.1% (avg. senior with benefit of $963 saw increase of $39 per mont
October 30, 2007
Boomers and Social SecurityOct. 15, 2007: Date the nation's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, filed for her Social Security retirement benefits - and she did it online. Casey-Kirschling was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, and will be eligible for
October 30, 2007
Social Security checks to rise a modest 2.3 percent in 2008The Social Security Administration announced Oct. 17 that seniors will receive an additional 2.3 percent in their Social Security checks beginning in January 2008, representing the lowest cost-of-living adjustment in four years. The average
October 30, 2007
MetLife Makes Products More PortableA large insurer is making it easier for members of its group plans to take their coverage with them when they leave their employers.A unit ...
October 30, 2007
MassMutual Markets Free Term Life In GreensboroMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company will hold a LifeBridge promotional meeting in Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 3.MassMutual, Springfield, Mass., set up the LifeBridge program to provide ...
October 30, 2007
Empire State Group To Honor WoodsThe Round Table of New York will be giving its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to David Woods.The Round Table, a financial services group, presents the ...