Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
MetLife Finds Confusion About Life Coverage Needs
By Staff WriterOnly 51% of employed individuals who have experienced a major life change in the last 18 months think they have enough life insurance.[@@]Researchers have ...
September 29, 2005
Overcoming The Generation Gap On Estate PlanningParents are readier to talk about inheritances than boomers thinkDefying a long-held taboo, parents in their 70s are far more likely to be comfortable ...
September 29, 2005
Analysis%3A House Leadership Turmoil May Help TRIA SupportersInsurers could benefit from the legal problems that have forced Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to temporarily give up his post as House majority leader.[@@]DeLay ...
September 29, 2005
ACLI Wants Japan To Live Up To PromisesThe United States should continue to press the Japanese government to make the giant Kampo postal life insurance program compete on a level playing ...
September 29, 2005
Feds Propose Regs For Nonqualified Deferred Comp PlansThe Internal Revenue Service is asking for public comments about treatment of older split-dollar life insurance arrangements in a draft of new rules for ...
September 28, 2005
Disability Insurer Completes Block RecaptureUnumProvident Corp. has completed previously announced plans to recapture a surplus relief reinsurance arrangement for a closed block of individual disability insurance business from ...
September 28, 2005
Consumers Struggle To Pay DebtsLife insurance companies' middle-market customers are showing signs of financial strain.[@@]The delinquency rate for credit cards increased to 4.81% of accounts in the second ...
September 28, 2005
GMWB Issue: What If For Life Is Not Enough?In anticipation of trillions of dollars of retirement savings distributions over the next few decades, the variable annuity industry is focusing a great deal ...