Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Regulators Aim to Make Troubled Insurers Work Better
By Allison BellThe NAIC's new Restructuring Mechanisms Working Group is looking at how to improve runoff and restructuring arrangements.
March 15, 2019
Indexed Life Sales Keep Growing: WinkSales of whole life and traditional universal life edged lower.
March 15, 2019
Genworth Has Canada ProblemsOne concern about the China Oceanwide-Genworth deal in Ottawa is customer data security.
March 14, 2019
State Legislators May Write a Short-Term Health ModelThe sales standards fight is also on the agenda for NCOIL's meeting in Nashville.
March 14, 2019
Variable Universal Life Won Life Insurance in 2018VUL policies account for just 8% of the U.S. individual market, but sales growth has been strong.
March 14, 2019
Academics Wary of FSOC's New Systemic Risk PlanFinancial services companies want regulators to focus on problem activities. Jeremy Kress says that won't work.
March 14, 2019
What Reinsurers Are Talking About NowThe life insurers' insurers worked to land whales at the ReFocus 2019 conference.
March 13, 2019
Here's How CLOs Are Really Surprising Investors: KBRAThe rating agency says worries about what could happen have distracted some observers from what is happening.