Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Nonprofit Insurer To Share Surplus With Customers
By Staff WriterBlue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota will be giving about $27 million in reserves back to policyholders starting in mid-November.North Dakota Insurance Commissioner ...
October 25, 2006
Hartford: Grandparents Big Part Of 529 MarketFinancial advisors' older clients may want to hear about college savings.Researchers at a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, have presented figures supporting ...
October 25, 2006
CFP Board Names Interim CEO, Task ForceBart Francis, the chair of the CFP Board of Governors, announced in a statement Oct. 24 that Don I. Tharpe will become interim CEO effective October 30 while the Board conducts a search for a permanent replacement for the departing Sarah Teslik. Tharpe was formerly president and CEO of the...
October 25, 2006
Consumers Resist Trimming Health SpendingDespite worries about skyrocketing medical bills, Americans may not be doing much to change the cost or quantity of the care that they use.Researchers at ...
October 25, 2006
Carrier Joins Drive To Improve Gum Care BenefitsDelta Dental of Tennessee is the latest dental insurer to respond to studies suggesting that poorly controlled periodontal disease may lead to catastrophic health problems.Tennessee ...
October 25, 2006
CIGNA To Roll Out Medium-Med PlansA large managed care company is going after workers who have no access to major medical coverage.CIGNA HealthCare, a unit of CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia, says ...
October 25, 2006
Retirement Assets Will Be Merged, Study SuggestsThe difficulties of retirement income planning and asset decumulation will prompt many U.S. investors to consolidate assets with a single advisor, TowerGroup Inc. predicts.Some financial ...
October 24, 2006
Schwab Studies Why Advisors GrowFor affluent investors, trust is the key factor in picking a financial advisor, Charles D. Goldman, an executive vice president of Charles Schwab & Co. ...