Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Cities And Counties Feeling Pressure On Reporting Retiree Health Benefits
By Samuel H. FleetThe city of Duluth, Minn., population 90,000, calculates that the cost of its pledge to provide free lifetime health benefits to its retirees is $178 ...
March 18, 2007
What Every Broker Needs To Know About The Big 3 DiseasesMany times, the Big 3 diseases--diabetes, cancer and coronary artery disease--are involved in impaired risk cases, either individually or in some combination. This is particularly ...
March 18, 2007
Handling Details For Seniors Could Be Coming Opportunity, Exec SaysEdmond Walters, chairman and CEO of eMoneyAdvisor, Conshohocken, Pa., sees a lucrative new business opportunity opening up as the U.S. population ages.Increasingly, financial advisors will ...
March 18, 2007
Do Boomers Want Discounts Or Advice--Or Both?All things being equal, take the discount. That's an established business guideline across the country. It's also the mantra of shoppers everywhere. After all, why ...
March 18, 2007
The Case For Single Premium Life As A Legacy MaximizerQuestion: Say that some clients have accumulated a sum of money to pass to heirs or to charity, but they're not sure what to do ...
March 18, 2007
Battle Raging OverInsurance companies are fighting a proposed Department of Labor regulation under which they would lose the ability to have annuities and guaranteed investment contracts used ...
March 18, 2007
The Economics Of 'Economic Benefit' Split-DollarIt has now been over 3 years since the U.S. Treasury finalized its regulations related to split-dollar arrangements. There remains a significant misunderstanding as to ...
March 17, 2007
The Ingredients For Success With Index ULThis is an opportune time to launch index universal life (IUL) insurance. Of course, compared to total universal life sales, IUL is still just a baby...