Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Principal Creates Health Rating System
By Staff WriterA health insurer has come up with a method for measuring and tracking changes in the "wellness" of an employer's employees.Principal Financial Group Inc., Des ...
July 19, 2007
xxxxxxxxxxCoventryBradyJuly18PullquoteFoto: noLines: xxBanner--LegislationBy Matt BradyA lawsuit filed against Pennsylvania-based life settlement company Coventry First has been dismissed by a federal judge in New York.Judge Denise ...
July 18, 2007
Employer Group: Wage Bill Needs ScrutinyMembers of Congress should take enough time to make sure they understand what H.R. 2831, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, really would do.The American ...
July 18, 2007
GAO: PBGC Needs A Bigger, More Active BoardCorporate governance weaknesses may be leaving the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. vulnerable to mismanagement.Barbara Bovbjerg, an analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, suggests that ...
July 18, 2007
Panel Postpones CHIP Hearing As Baucus Blasts Veto LetterThe Senate Finance Committee has put off consideration of a children's health insurance program reauthorization bill.The committee has postponed a "markup," or intense review, of ...
July 18, 2007
Firm May Buy Small Life PoliciesMilestone Providers L.L.C. says it will consider purchasing in-force life insurance policies with death benefits as low as $50,000.The company has developed processes that enable ...
July 18, 2007
Hartford Doubles Retention LimitsA life insurer is trying to appeal to wealthy individuals by increasing the amount of mortality risk it will keep on its own books.The life ...
July 18, 2007
Legacy Helps Place Settlement PortfolioA life settlement company says it has helped an investor client sell a large pool of settled policies.Legacy Benefit Corp., New York, reports that the ...