Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
ACLI: OFC Effort Is Making Progress, But Work Remains
By Matt BradyThe insurance industry has made significant progress towards the enactment of optional federal charter legislation in 2006, but there is still a long way to ...
October 29, 2006
ACLI Asserts That Weeding Out IOLI Is NecessaryWeeding out investor originated life insurance policies may be a difficult task, but it is also necessary for the financial and moral health of the ...
October 29, 2006
A Tabloid Drama Unfolds (Outside of Probate Court)It's not often that one gets to turn back the clock. But this rarest of privileges was afforded to a hypothetical business owner whose business ...
October 29, 2006
NASD Suggests Best Practices For Life Settlements Of VL PoliciesIn August 2006, the National Association of Securities Dealers issued Notice to Members 06-38 addressing "Member Obligations with Respect to the Sale of Existing Variable ...
October 29, 2006
Blood Pressure And Insurability: The Issues Change At Older AgesWhat really matters when the life underwriter sees blood pressure differing significantly in people over (versus under) age 65?The answer is not widely known.In fact, ...
October 29, 2006
Measuring the DrapesThe consensus of pundits, pollsters, industry lobbyists and even Republicans is that Democrats will play a much larger role in Congress in 2007 than they ...
October 29, 2006
Where The Life Settlement Business Is Now--And Where It's GoingOn Oct. 4, National Underwriter Life & Health sponsored a roundtable at the Buckhead Club in Atlanta that brought together executives from several life settlement ...
October 29, 2006
Prostate Cancer Is Not An Automatic Reason For A DeclineThis year alone, 234,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif. Nearly 10% will succumb to ...