Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Insurer Passes Group LTC Milestone
By Staff WriterUnumProvident Corp. says it now provides long term care insurance coverage for 500,000 members of employer-sponsored LTC programs.[@@]The Chattanooga, Tenn., insurer began the year ...
July 06, 2005
Allstate Unit To Eit LTC MarketLincoln Benefit Life Company, a subsidiary of the Allstate Company, says it will no longer sell long term care insurance policies under its own ...
July 06, 2005
Surplus Gains Slowed In 1st QuarterOne hundred companies, comprising 84% of life industry assets, reported a modest 1.7% gain in total surplus funds in the first quarter of 2005, ...
July 06, 2005
Sun Life To Acquire Hong Kong OperationsSun Life Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the equivalent of about $450 million for CMG Asia and CommServe Financial.[@@]CMG Asia is the Hong ...
July 06, 2005
CBO: Insurance No Substitute For Estate Ta RepealOnly about 6,800 estates that included farms or small businesses paid federal estate taxes in 2000, and the total might have been less than ...
July 06, 2005
Honing of principles for new reserving system startPrinciple-basedJuly 21jc90 linesPullquote and graph with the 10 principlesBanner==RegulationA set of principles is starting to be crafted by regulators, insurers and actuaries with the ...
July 06, 2005
Principles For Early Success: Tips That Work For RookiesI have been able to enjoy an early success in our business by actively applying five principles that I would like to share with ...
July 06, 2005
Florida Sees Windfall From Offshore Insurance SalesOn July 1, a new law went into effect in Florida that lets offshore companies sell life insurance and annuities more easily to ...