Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Trading Up, at a Cost
By Staff WriterWe live in an emotionally adolescent culture that focuses mainly on short-term solutions. Many of us are not well trained in delaying gratification. We don't...
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 ...
June 30, 2006
Survey: Workers Have Trouble Emptying NestsMany U.S. residents say the need to support adult children is affecting their retirement savings.Researchers at a unit of Allstate Corp., Northbrook, Ill., have published ...