Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Survey: Small Businesses Oppose AHP Bill
By Staff WriterA group that opposes the "association health plan bill" says the majority of U.S. small business employees oppose the concept of exempting small group health ...
May 03, 2006
Lawmaker Describes Dysfunctional CongressPolitical gridlock is preventing lawmakers from bringing sanity to federal spending, according to Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.The current "run for cover Congress" is scheduled to ...
May 03, 2006
AALU: SOLI Threatens Life Tax BreaksLetting speculators insure strangers' lives could make all life insurance tax breaks vulnerable to tax reform efforts.Officials at the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting, Falls ...
May 03, 2006
Sunshine State Lawmakers OK LTC Contingent Benefit BillMembers of the Florida House and Senate have voted unanimously to approve a bill that could require insurers to offer a contingent benefit to Florida ...
May 03, 2006
Retirement Services Experts: Keep It SimpleInsurers could help baby boomers save more by making savings products easier for the boomers to understand.Executives from units of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., ...
May 03, 2006
HSA Bank Signs RegenceA Northwestern health insurer has picked a health savings account services partner.The Regence Group, Portland, Ore., the parent of several Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...
May 03, 2006
AIG Sub Unveils VUL ProductAmerican General Life Insurance Company has introduced the Platinum Investors VIP life insurance policy.American General Life, Houston, a unit of American International Group Inc., New ...
May 03, 2006
Consulting Firm Sees Shift Away From Hybrid Pension PlansLarge companies continue to desert traditional defined benefit pensions, and use of other types of DB plans is also waning.Researchers at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Washington, ...