Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Allstate Patents FA Crediting Methods
By Staff WriterThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent that will protect a technique a large insurer is using to calculate crediting rates for ...
August 30, 2006
NAIC Arm OKs Preferred Tables, AG 38A key panel of regulators has endorsed a multipart measure that could affect both issuers of universal life policies and insurers that use preferred mortality ...
August 30, 2006
Low Rates Hurt Fixed Annuity VolumeU.S. fixed annuity sales fell to $17.9 billion in the second quarter, down 14% from the total for the second quarter of 2005.Sales of indexed ...
August 30, 2006
Low Rates Hurt Fixed Annuity VolumeU.S. fixed annuity sales fell to $17.9 billion in the second quarter, down 14% from the total for the second quarter of 2005.Sales of indexed ...
August 29, 2006
Census: Uninsured Rates Rise For Middle-Income AdultsU.S. health carriers covered 247.3 million people in 2005, up from 245.9 million people in 2004, but the percentage of residents lacking coverage also increased.The ...
August 29, 2006
WebHR Chooses Benefit ExpressA Web-based benefit plan administrator will be using technology from a Midwestern company.WebHR Inc., Sacramento, Calif., has decided to use online benefit administration tools from ...
August 29, 2006
WebHR Chooses Benefit ExpressA Web-based benefit plan administrator will be using technology from a Midwestern company.WebHR Inc., Sacramento, Calif., has decided to use online benefit administration tools from ...
August 28, 2006
MIB: Buyers Submit Fewer ApplicationsU.S. life insurers received fewer requests for coverage in July.The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says U.S. life insurers checked 5.3% fewer life insurance applications ...