Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Insurers Step Up To Help China
By Staff WriterNorth American insurers are starting to announce efforts to respond to the recent earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.A 7.9-magnitude struck the province Monday, and Chinese ...
May 16, 2008
MIB: Buyers Submit Fewer ApplicationsU.S. life insurers may have received fewer requests for individual coverage in April 2008 than they did in April 2007, but they received more requests ...
May 16, 2008
Unum Retires DebtA disability insurer says it has completed paying off a portion of its debt securities.Unum Group Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., says it has retired the last ...
May 16, 2008
Coventry Board Extends Buyback ProgramThe board of Coventry Health Care Inc. has agreed to spend the cash needed to buy up more of the company's common stock.The board of ...
May 16, 2008
Pru Aims Site At WomenPrudential Financial Inc. has added a consumer marketing Web site.Prudential, New York, has posted the new Prudential Women & Money site at Document LinkFeatures include ...
May 15, 2008
Milliman: Health Increase Stays In Single DigitsResearchers at Milliman Inc. say the typical U.S. family of 4 will spend $15,609 on medical care this year, up 7.6% from the total for ...
May 15, 2008
Tillinghast: CFOs Forecast GrowthMany life insurance company financial executives say their companies are still doing reasonably well.Most of the 38 life company chief financial officers who participated in ...
May 15, 2008
Hearing Witnesses Critique HSA ApproachA House Ways and Means Committee subcommittee presented several critics of high-deductible health plans and account-based plans Wednesday at a hearing.Rep. Pete Stark, D- Calif., ...