Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Banks Making Substantial Progress In Growing Life Insurance Sales
By Kenneth KehrerThe 2004/2005 Kehrer-LIMRA Bank Life Insurance Sales Study, released this month, found banks and thrift institutions continue to make substantial progress in growing their life ...
March 05, 2006
More Nontraditional Producers Are Selling LTC InsuranceFinancial planners and other nontraditional producers will have an increasingly important role to play in the long term care insurance business, says a long term ...
March 05, 2006
California Vs. Disability InsurersAmerica's Health Insurance Plans and the American Council of Life Insurers are fighting in court to keep California regulators from eliminating discretionary clauses from disability ...
March 05, 2006
Insuring Against The UnthinkableAny time you can talk to clients about disability protection, you ought to discuss the importance of catastrophic coverage and make sure any policies purchased ...
March 05, 2006
Steps Disability Insurers Can Take To Stay Out Of The CourtroomIn recent years, bad faith lawsuits against disability insurers have resulted in tens of millions in jury awards.For example, in May 2001, a Florida jury ...
March 05, 2006
5 Points To Consider When Assessing Disability Policy ValueIn today's economic environment, customers are extremely cost conscious when selecting employee benefits.However, you have to educate your clients about value as well as price, ...
March 05, 2006
Finding The New DI BuyerRecent statistical reports continue to show that the disability market is underpenetrated. Though the industry is making some progress, the total number of individuals covered ...
March 05, 2006
Carriers Say Banks Are Starting To 'Get' Life InsuranceBanks are beginning to break away from the transaction mentality that limited their sales of life insurance for the past seven or eight years, industry ...