Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
New Institutional Group Wants Transparency In Settlements
By Jim ConnollyA new organization of institutional investors participating in the life settlement marketplace is striving for greater transparency as one of the principles that it will ...
April 29, 2007
Industry's Exposure To Residential Mortgages Is SmallResidential real estate mortgages represent only a small piece of life insurers' investments, and troubled mortgages only a tiny portion of that total, according to ...
April 29, 2007
A Note From The PublisherWith its rapid growth over the last few years, it is sometimes difficult to remember that the life settlement business is still relatively new.Despite its ...
April 29, 2007
Moody's Assesses Impact Of Bird Flu PandemicAn avian influenza pandemic would have a "material effect" on life insurers, but the chances of such an event happening are still "relatively low," a ...
April 29, 2007
House Panel Favors Group Life In TRIAAdvocates of including group life insurance as a covered line in legislation extending the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act met with little resistance in a House ...
April 29, 2007
NCOIL On Its Life Settlement Model:More Talk Before Decision-MakingStakeholders debating the update to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' model act regarding life settlements opted to hold off on much of the major ...
April 29, 2007
The Advisor's Role In Getting The Word Out On SettlementsAdvisors in life settlement transactions continue to work with their clients and conduct their transactions despite the heated debate surrounding the market.Even so, with some ...
April 29, 2007
An Industry Confronting Struggles On Many FrontsThe second roundtable of life settlement executives sponsored by National Underwriter Life & Health took place on March 23. This was after the spring meeting ...