Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Measure Could End Same-Sex Couple Benefits Penalties
By Arthur D. PostalLawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress that could equalize tax treatment of employer-provided health care benefits for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples.Current law requires ...
June 07, 2007
Massachusetts Nears Coverage Mandate DeadlineEnrollment in the new Bay State health insurance program for moderate-income residents reached 79,000 June 1, up 15% from the total recorded a month earlier, ...
June 06, 2007
Recordkeepers Form Trade GroupIndependent companies that help run 401(k) plans have started their own organization.The companies, independent 401(k) plan recordkeepers, have set up the Council of Independent 401(k) ...
June 06, 2007
SOA: Industry Could Survive Flu PandemicThe U.S. life insurance industry could handle a severe influenza pandemic reasonably well.Actuaries at the Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, Ill., have published that prediction in ...
June 06, 2007
Guardian: Smaller Employers Like Simpler PlansBenefits decision-makers at smaller companies appear to have somewhat different attitudes about benefit plans than decision-makers at bigger companies do.Researchers at Guardian Life Insurance Company ...
June 06, 2007
EBRI: Age Affects Minority Retirement Needs EstimatesAverage retirement confidence levels among minority workers are relatively high, even though the workers' average savings rate is relatively low.Researchers at the Employee Benefit Research ...
June 06, 2007
ACLI Wants Uniform Shift To New Reserving ApproachThe American Council of Life Insurers wants all states to adopt any new principles-based reserving rules the same way.Regulators and others talked about principles-based reserving ...
June 06, 2007
ACLI Wants Uniform Shift To New Reserving ApproachThe American Council of Life Insurers wants all states to adopt any new principles-based reserving rules the same way.Regulators and others talked about principles-based reserving ...