Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Planning for the Wounded
By Staff WriterWhen my husband Brian, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, deployed to Iraq last August, we knew it was going to be difficult. We...
July 01, 2006
Reviewing the SituationWhen advisors devise financial plans for their clients, there's plenty of work done on the asset management side. When it comes to asset protection, however,...
June 30, 2006
HSA Hearing Turns To Cap On Group Health DeductibilityLawmakers talked Wednesday about capping deductibility of employer health insurance expenditures during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on health savings accounts.Ways and Means ...
June 30, 2006
Treasury Official On Flu: Start Washing Hands NowFinancial services companies should promote good personal hygiene and the infrastructure for shifting work to employees' homes now, before a severe influenza pandemic strikes.D. Scott ...
June 30, 2006
Americans Struggle With Nest Egg RiskU.S. workers may find that variable annuities with guarantees are good vehicles for fine-tuning exposure to investment risk right before and after they retire.Executives from ...
June 30, 2006
Old reliableConsumers, as a whole, can be a pretty predictable, transparent lot. The equity market pendulum swings one way and they flock to variable products, lured by several years of consistently robust returns and visions of that trend continuing as far as
June 30, 2006
Giant Health Insurer To Cover HPV InoculationsWellPoint Inc. says it will cover the Gardasil human papilloma virus vaccine for girls and women in company plans that offer vaccination benefits.The American Cancer ...
June 30, 2006
Highline Product Opens Better Window Into Insurer PortfoliosOne of National Underwriter's sister companies is updating a Web-based service that can help subscribers analyze insurance company securities holdings.Highline Data, Hoboken, N.J., a unit ...