Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Scottish Re Gets Capital Infusion
By Jim ConnollyScottish Re Group Ltd. has completed a previously announced effort to sell $600 million in stock to a pair of major investors.The buyers, who now ...
May 07, 2007
Times Eyes Private Medicare FFS PlansA large newspaper has printed a front-page article that takes a highly critical look at a closely watched public-private health finance partnership.Robert Pear writes today ...
May 06, 2007
Helping Clients Survive DivorceThe author Peter Philipps came up with a most appropriate "riddle," as he calls it. "What can be divided exactly in half and still yield two unequal parts?" The answer: marital property!
May 06, 2007
CorrectionCorrectionThe name of Christopher Lubbers, president of Heartland Financial Group of Kansas Inc., Parsons, Kan., was misspelled in "What? Boomers Who Want To Leave An ...
May 06, 2007
CorrectionCorrectionThe name of Christopher Lubbers, president of Heartland Financial Group of Kansas Inc., Parsons, Kan., was misspelled in "What? Boomers Who Want To Leave An ...
May 06, 2007
Health Costs Chill Traditional Group Life SalesEmployers continued to shy away from paying for new employee life insurance plans in 2006.Insurers increased U.S. sales of "voluntary," employee-paid group term life insurance ...
May 06, 2007
LIFE Wants Producers To Amplify Disability Insurance Month MessageThe people who have made May the first annual Disability Insurance Awareness Month are hoping insurance agents and brokers will help them reach the tens ...
May 06, 2007
Valuation Manual Under DevelopmentAs part of the effort to update the Standard Valuation Law in anticipation of moving to a principles-based reserving system, regulators and actuaries are currently ...