Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Lincoln, J-P Complete Merger
By Staff WriterLincoln National Corp., Philadelphia, says it has completed its acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot Corp.The company says the acquisition will make it rank first in the United ...
April 02, 2006
Partial Annuitization: Benefits And BarriersIt is widely known that a very small proportion of nonqualified deferred annuity contract owners--variable and fixed--ever choose to "annuitize" in order to receive a ...
April 02, 2006
Partial Annuitization: Benefits And BarriersIt is widely known that a very small proportion of nonqualified deferred annuity contract owners--variable and fixed--ever choose to "annuitize" in order to receive a ...
April 02, 2006
New York Bans Health And Disability Discretionary ClausesNew York state insurance regulators have joined their California colleagues in trying to get discretionary clauses out of health and disability insurance policies and subscriber ...
April 02, 2006
How SVUL Hybrids Offset Estate Planning RisksClients intending to leave a legacy to children and grandchildren have a need for estate planning. They want to avoid the bite of estate taxes ...
April 02, 2006
Senate Introduction Of OFC Bill 'Imminent'Introduction of legislation establishing an optional federal charter for insurance companies--both life and property-casualty--is "imminent," say several industry sources.It could be introduced before Congress leaves ...
April 02, 2006
How SVUL Hybrids Offset Estate Planning RisksClients intending to leave a legacy to children and grandchildren have a need for estate planning. They want to avoid the bite of estate taxes ...
April 02, 2006
Single Premium VL: A Good VA AlternativeSales of variable life insurance have been in the doldrums since before the dot-com bubble burst and the 9/11 terrorist attacks caused the stock market ...