Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Life Settlement Firms Face Jumbled Regulatory Picture
By Allison BellLife Settlement Firms Face Jumbled Regulatory PictureBySome states might tinker with their life settlement laws in 2005, and more will revise their life settlement regulations. ...
September 15, 2004
Roadmap Hits Some BumpsInsurance regulation overhaul bill attacked by legislators and consumer repsBy Arthur D. PostalWashingtonThe House Financial Services Committee is slowing its pace on action on the ...
September 15, 2004
2Q 2004 Variable Life Up 21% Over Last YearByVariable life experienced a moderate upturn in sales in the 2nd quarter of 2004 compared to the 1st quarter, perhaps further indicating a stabilization of ...
September 15, 2004
Institutions Reshape Life Settlement MarketByInstitutional investors are reshaping the U.S. viatical and life settlement markets.Viatical settlement brokers created the modern secondary market, or resale market, for in-force life insurance ...
September 15, 2004
NAIFA Kicks Off Ambitious AgendaLas VegasWhen Kwame Jackson spoke before a packed general session of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Convention and Career Conference here, the ...
September 15, 2004
Web Services: The Next Big Thing?ByCould Web services be the "Next Big Thing?" Theoretically, Web services will make software programs easier to write. They will simplify the connections between programs, ...
September 15, 2004
Military Sales Probes ExpandingWashingtonAs the House Financial Services Committee prepares to mark up legislation restricting sales of insurance on military bases, an investigation into the sales practices on ...
September 15, 2004
Not Quite a Storybook EndingBySitting in the dining room of a home in the affluent suburb of Rockville Center, N.Y., I had to refrain from staring at the antique ...