Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
SOA: Industry Could Survive Flu Pandemic
By Jim ConnollyThe 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 05, 2007
Milliman Adds Inpatient Utilization Management SupportA consulting firm is expanding its medical management services operation.The screening services arm of Milliman Inc., Seattle, is working with Care Management International Inc., Hoboken, ...
June 05, 2007
Coventry Expands CurriculumA life settlement provider is extending its course listings for advisors who help consumers sell life insurance policies.The new curriculum includes advanced courses aimed at ...
June 05, 2007
Standard Aims LTD Product At Workers With Tough JobsA unit of StanCorp Financial Group Inc. is trying to expand access to long term disability insurance protection.Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Ore., has introduced the ...
June 05, 2007
Standard Aims LTD Product At Workers With Tough JobsA unit of StanCorp Financial Group Inc. is trying to expand access to long term disability insurance protection.Standard Insurance Company, Portland, Ore., has introduced the ...
June 05, 2007
Golden Rule To Sell Health Plans Through Self-Employed GroupThe Freelancers Union is offering its members in 30 states access to individual health insurance coverage.The organization announced it is offering a range of high-deductible ...
June 05, 2007
AMA Says Medicare Cuts Will Hurt SeniorsMedicare's planned cuts in 2008 physician payments could cause many doctors to reduce the number of Medicare patients they see, a physicians' group says.Roughly 60% ...
June 05, 2007
MetLife: Penetration Of Some Benefits Varies WidelySellers of term life insurance benefits and critical illness insurance may have more opportunities to increase sales than sellers of some other benefits.Researchers at a ...