Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
DOL Offers Rules For Dumped 401(k)s
By Staff WriterThe U.S. Department of Labor announced final rules that allow financial institutions to take charge of abandoned 401(k) plans.Plan sponsors abandon an average of 1,650 ...
April 23, 2006
CI vs. The Alternatives: What Advisors Should KnowAbout 40 insurance companies offer critical illness insurance today, but advisors don't always understand the coverage or even know about it, says Ralph Weber...
April 23, 2006
Possible Roth IRA Expansion Could Deal A Blow To AnnuitiesCongressional tax writers drafting tax cut legislation are considering removing income limits for those investing in Roth IRAs as a revenue-raising tool, a development that ...
April 23, 2006
CI Screening: It's Time To Upgrade The ApproachCardiovascular events, most notably heart attacks, are one of the main causes of critical illness insurance claims.To deal effectively with this risk, CI underwriters inevitably ...
April 23, 2006
Why CI Insurance Is ExpandingWith rising health care costs leading to higher health plan premiums and deductibles and reduced coverage, employees are digging deeper into their wallets to pay ...
April 23, 2006
Regulators Seek Evaluation Of Split Mortality Tables PlanRegulators are asking actuaries to evaluate a plan to split the 2001 Commissioners' Standard Ordinary mortality tables to incorporate preferred and non-preferred mortality rates.Insurers use ...
April 23, 2006
CI Screening: It's Time To Upgrade The ApproachCardiovascular events, most notably heart attacks, are one of the main causes of critical illness insurance claims.To deal effectively with this risk, CI underwriters inevitably ...
April 23, 2006
Why They Don't BuyIn decades of meeting one on one with employees at every level to discuss their benefits needs, I often hear the same objections to buying ...