Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
What "everybody knows" is not always right
By Jack MarrionAccording to a Society of Actuaries study, roughly three-quarters of people surveyed felt they would live until age 80, but roughly the same percentage thought they'd be dead by age 85. I believe the reason for this groupthink, whereby everybody
October 01, 2007
Hancock Adds Withdrawal Benefit RiderAn insurer has come out with an annuity designed for purchasers who want to begin taking withdrawals immediately.John Hancock Annuities, Boston, a unit of Manulife ...
October 01, 2007
Hancock Adds Withdrawal Benefit RiderAn insurer has come out with an annuity designed for purchasers who want to begin taking withdrawals immediately.John Hancock Annuities, Boston, a unit of Manulife ...
October 01, 2007
Consultants: Deductibles May Block Health AccessRising out-of-pocket costs could shut many middle-income Americans with health coverage out of the U.S. health care system.Roughly 60% of the U.S. residents who have ...
October 01, 2007
NRP Raises CapitalNational Retirement Partners Inc. says it has sold $20 million in common stock.NRP, Capistrano Beach, Calif., runs a network of 90 retirement plan advisory firms. ...
October 01, 2007
Hartford To Keep Life Offices In SimsburyA large multiline insurer is buying the 611,000-square-foot office building that its life company now occupies.Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, will buy the current ...
October 01, 2007
Judge Cuts Charges Against Coventry As Florida SettlesA New York state court has dismissed most of a lawsuit filed against a life settlement firm by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, ...
October 01, 2007
Judge Cuts Charges Against Coventry As Florida SettlesA New York state court has dismissed most of a lawsuit filed against a life settlement firm by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, ...