Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
More Life Insurers Want To Hedge VA Guarantees
By Trevor ThomasNU Online News Service, May 7, 2004, 5:18 p.m. EDT -- More North American life insurers want to hedge their variable annuity product guarantees ...
May 06, 2004
Life Policies May Back Lines Of CreditNU Online News Service, May 6, 2004, 3:43 p.m. EDT -- Ramp Corp., New York, has set up a new unit that plans to ...
May 06, 2004
Making Accelerated Benefits BetterModify The Survival RequirementTo The Editor:When I was medical director at a direct writing company, the claims administrators occasionally turned to me for an opinion ...
May 06, 2004
U.S. Group Disability Premiums Rose 8% In 2003ByU.S. insurers protected 1% more workers against long-term disabilities in 2003 than in 2002, and 3% more workers against short-term disabilities.In its latest group disability ...
May 06, 2004
The Traditional Top 3 Test Can Be DeceivingByIf you sell group long-term disability insurance, you want to work with an insurer that takes a flexible but sensible approach to risk analysis.One problem ...
May 06, 2004
New Research Reveals High Orphan RatesNearly one-third of individual life insurance policyholders in the U.S. believe their advisors have abandoned them. And approximately 25% of U.S. policyholders intend to purchase ...
May 06, 2004
The Browning of America Calls For Education And Different ApproachesByWhen Oprah Winfrey said, "I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes," her words reflected what many insurers and financial ...
May 06, 2004
Going For The GoldBySpeaking at the first convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters (now the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors) in 1890, author Edward ...