Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
IRS: Plan Sponsors Can Use Blended Mortality Tables
By Staff WriterEmployers can use mortality tables that blend data for annuitants and nonannuitants in 2007 calculations of current retirement plan obligations.Internal Revenue Service officials have announced ...
February 02, 2007
Destiny To Add PPO Option In IllinoisAn Illinois pioneer in the health account market is giving customers the option of combining a health account plan and a traditional plan.Destiny Health, Chicago, ...
February 02, 2007
Consulting Firm Scoops Up Dutch AffiliateWatson Wyatt Worldwide says it has completed a previously announced acquisition of an affiliate, Watson Wyatt Brans & Company.Watson Wyatt Brans, Amsterdam, an actuarial consulting ...
February 02, 2007
Traditional Pension Membership Continues To FallParticipation in traditional pension plans dropped to a new low in 2005, while the number of such plans declined sharply, the Employee Benefits Research Institute ...
February 01, 2007
Find value in forgotten policiesChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy Change can be unsettling for many seniors, but the fact remains that it is inevitable. As life changes and seniors retire,
February 01, 2007
The decline and fall of the term life insurance premiumInflation isn't all it's cracked up to be. Despite the steady appreciation of almost everything except computer speed and digital storage space, premiums on term life policies have actually declined over the last decade - and will continue to fall
February 01, 2007
Aetna Offers Expat HRAA large managed care company is giving U.S. companies overseas a chance to try personal health accounts.The global benefits business at Aetna Inc., Hartford, has ...
February 01, 2007
Hancock Adds Whole Life PolicyA U.S. unit of Manulife Financial Corp. has updated a basic insurance product.John Hancock Life Insurance, Boston, a subsidiary of Manulife, Toronto, has introduced the ...