Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
A Matter of Life and Death
By Staff WriterIt's the one sure thing in life, but many of us shrink from planning for it. Even those who handle other financial issues with aplomb...
September 30, 2004
Low Cost Boosts Take-Up Rates Of Ancillary BenefitsLow Cost Boosts Take-Up Rates of Ancillary BenefitsByU.S. employees who have access to employer-paid ancillary life, health and disability benefits are more likely to take ...
September 30, 2004
KPMG Panelists: Take Broader View Of RiskWhat do you get when you put "plain old risk management on steroids?"[@@]Enterprise risk management, quipped James Kallman, president of Kallman Consulting Services, Lakeway, ...
September 30, 2004
Sun Life Assurance Adds VA RiderNU Online News Service, Sept. 30, 2004, 5:25 p.m. EDTSun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) has introduced a variable annuity rider that protects ...
September 30, 2004
ISS Updates Underwriting SoftwareNU Online News Service, Sept. 30, 2004, 3:54 p.m. EDTInnovative Software Solutions Inc., Charlotte, N.C., has updated its MAPS Underwriting Workbench system.[@@]Version 1.2 of ...
September 30, 2004
A Whole New MeaningMutuals Lose Sec. 809 Tax Fight For 2004WashingtonThe nations approximately 50 mutual life insurance companies have lost an effort to escape payment of a tax ...
September 30, 2004
Revenue Ruling Concerns ACLIWashingtonThe life insurance industry is concerned that a new IRS revenue ruling will reduce the attractiveness of life insurance and annuity products to nonresident aliens.Revenue ...
September 30, 2004
Fast Action On No-BrainersIf anything shows how utterly dysfunctional this Congress is, it is when our solons mobilize in rapid-action fashion over some no-brainer of an issue.Yes, as ...