Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
SCHIP Due For Another House Vote
By Arthur D. PostalThe House was scheduled to vote late Oct. 25 on legislation expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Plan that was revised to meet the objections ...
October 28, 2007
Swiss Re's Kinnaird Says Nimble Insurers Can ShineThe best of times await nimble insurers, said Donna Kinnaird, president of Swiss Re Life and Health America Inc., at KPMG LLP's 19th annual insurance ...
October 28, 2007
Full Plate For NAIC's 'A' CommitteeThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners' 'A' committee will tackle a number of issues this year, including reciprocity issues between the states and proposals to ...
October 28, 2007
Life Reinsurers: Our Financial Re Deals Different From P-C ContractsLife reinsurers who offer financial reinsurance distanced themselves from their property-casualty counterparts during a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries here ...
October 28, 2007
NAIC Considering How To Create Statistical Agent For DataWork continues to create a framework for establishing an agent to gather mortality data from companies that would be used both to provide experience that ...
October 28, 2007
Industry Dodges Tax Bullet In Rangel's Proposed LegislationThe insurance industry has escaped added taxation in the long-anticipated legislation that was introduced on Oct. 25 by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the ...
October 28, 2007
409A Deadline ExtendedThe American Benefits Council applauded the decision by the Internal Revenue Service to extend the deadline for tax code Section 409A, allowing plan sponsors more ...
October 28, 2007
Senate Bill Would Increase Transparency Of 401(k) FeesSen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., said he intends to introduce legislation designed to increase transparency of 401(k) fees at a hearing of the Senate Special Committee ...