Life Insurance
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Using Impaired Risk SPIAs: Strategies For Unhealthy Clients
By Gary Underwood, Michael SilverUsing Impaired Risk SPIAs: Strategies For Unhealthy ClientsByAn "impaired risk" single premium immediate annuity (SPIA) is one financial product that may give a health-impaired client ...
November 10, 2004
The Underwriting Toll Of StressThe Underwriting TollOf StressBurnout can be associated with medical problems of concern to underwritersBy Linda KocoWhen a person gets burned out on a job, project ...
November 10, 2004
Premium FinancingSuccess Or Not, It's All In The DesignPremium FinancingSuccess Or Not, Its All In The DesignPremium financing is a technique that has been used with life insurance for decades. In one form ...
November 09, 2004
Sun Life Financial Unit Hires J.P. Morgan VeteranNU Online News Service, Nov. 9, 2004, 5:02 p.m. ESTIndependent Financial Marketing Group Inc., Purchase, N.Y., has hired Frank Genna to be associate counsel ...
November 09, 2004
K.C. Life Chairman DiesNU Online News Service, Nov. 9, 2004, 7:04 p.m. ESTThe head of a Midwestern life insurance dynasty has passed away.[@@]Joseph Bixby, chairman of Kansas ...
November 09, 2004
Agent Group Rejects Mandatory Commission DisclosureLife insurance agents should not be required to disclose to consumers the commissions they receive, the largest life insurance agents' trade group has determined.[@@]An ...
November 08, 2004
Keystone Regulators Promote Private LTC CoverageNU Online News Service, Nov. 8, 2004, 6:11 p.m. ESTPennsylvania officials are trying to encourage consumers to consider buying long term care insurance while ...
November 08, 2004
Earnings: Conseco, LabOne, Independence, K.C. LifeConsumers seem to be happy to do business with the new Conseco Inc., Carmel, Ind.[@@]The life and supplemental health insurer emerged from bankruptcy reorganization ...