Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Senators Defeat HSA Health Premium Proposal
By Staff WriterMembers of the Senate voted 47-48 Thursday against permitting consumers to use health savings account assets to pay for individual high-deductible health insurance policies.Senators were ...
January 26, 2007
NCOIL Votes To Stick With Own Life Settlement ModelState lawmakers have decided to address insurable interest concerns by updating their own life settlement model rather than by adopting a model developed by state ...
January 26, 2007
Judiciary Panel Chair Introduces Single-Payer BillSome Democratic members of the House are trying to draw attention to the idea of nationalizing the U.S. health finance system.Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., ...
January 26, 2007
NAIC Fills 2007 Committee PostsJulie McPeak will be 2007 chair of the Life and Annuities Committee at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.McPeak, executive director of the Kentucky Office ...
January 26, 2007
Show Me State To Employers: 1CShow Me The Coverage 1DMissouri Gov. Matt Blunt says he wants to reduce the state's franchise tax for employers that provide health coverage for employees.The health coverage deduction could ...
January 26, 2007
NAIC Fills 2007 Committee PostsJulie McPeak will be 2007 chair of the Life and Annuities Committee at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.McPeak, executive director of the Kentucky Office ...
January 26, 2007
HHS Awards Medicaid GrantsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given $103 million to 27 state health insurance programs for the poor.Medicaid program recipients can use ...
January 25, 2007
Groups Rally Opponents Of Deferred Comp ProvisionsThe insurance industry has secured broad business trade group support for its effort to modify or kill provisions in Senate legislation that could devastate deferred ...