Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
GAO Finds Conflicts In Federal Retirement Age Incentives
By Staff WriterPersuading Americans to work later could help shore up Medicare and Social Security, but the federal government now offers incentives for people to retire early.Barbara ...
July 15, 2007
DI, Medical Benefits Surge In Voluntary MarketDisability insurance along with hospital income and medical benefits showed the highest sales growth among voluntary worksite employee benefits in 2006, Eastbridge Associates Inc., Avon, ...
July 15, 2007
SOA Effort Explores More Flexible Retirement SystemsA new report from the Society of Actuaries looks at envisioning new retirement systems for the 21st century--systems that could meet the needs of baby ...
July 15, 2007
EBRI Says Women Growing Part Of Older Work ForceAs the labor-force participation rate increases for those age 55 and over, a new study has found that women make up the majority of the ...
July 15, 2007
Florida Issues Order Against Life Settlement FirmFlorida insurance regulators have asked a Minnesota company to stop buying life insurance policies for their state.The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a ...
July 15, 2007
Will Sub-prime Woes Roil Boomers' Financial Plans?Much of the concern about the shaky sub-prime real estate mortgage market centers on how portfolios of institutional investors will be affected, but there is ...
July 15, 2007
How Did It All Start?Financial planners offered their perspectives on how the sub-prime decline developed.Sub-prime mortgages have deteriorated in the last year, casting a shadow on the real estate ...
July 15, 2007
Qualifying the Insurance Sale for the Qualified PlanProducers have long viewed non-qualified plans for highly compensated executives as a lucrative area to be mined in pursuit of life insurance sales. But pension ...