Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
What To Do When The VL Client Says, Oops, I Bought the Wrong Product
By Jack LeavyBy It happens every day in our line of work. Clients wonder if they purchased a product that best meets their needs. This is normal ...
July 19, 2001
Sponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged WaySponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged Way The recently enacted Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act calls for an estate tax ...
July 19, 2001
Traditional Lifes Pendulum Swings BackJust A LittleBy The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 227 points on the day this was being written, and the NASDAQ fell by nearly 76 points.Such swoons ...
July 18, 2001
UnumProvident Offers Extra Support For LTD And Accelerated Death Benefit ClaimantsNU Online News Service, July 18, 2:25 p.m. -- UnumProvident Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., has introduced the LifeBalance program, a new employee benefit program that ...
July 18, 2001
Insurance M&A Activity StrongNU Online News Service, July 18, 4:35 p.m. -- Mergerstat Holdings L.P., Los Angeles, says insurance industry mergers and acquisitions have bucked the slump ...
July 18, 2001
Moody's Skeptical About JapanNU Online News Service, July 18, 3:55 p.m. -- Moody's Investors Service, New York, has issued a bleak forecast for Japan's life insurers, citing ...
July 17, 2001
AmerUs Puts Indianapolis Life Operations Under McPhailNU Online News Service, July 17, 12:35 p.m. -- AmerUs Group Company, Des Moines, Iowa, says it is putting all life insurance operations under ...
July 12, 2001
Lehman Optimistic About Long-Term Care InsuranceNU Online News Service, July 12, 1:35 p.m. -- Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, has published a research report on John Hancock Financial Services ...