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LIFE Updates Web Site
By Staff WriterThe Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education has created a new home page.LIFE, Arlington, Va., has posted its updated main Web site at Document ...
May 14, 2008
AARP: Slump May Affect Retirement MovesU.S. consumers say the weak economy is hurting their efforts to prepare for retirement.Researchers at AARP, Washington, have published that finding in a summary of ...
May 14, 2008
Accenture To Manage CNA BlockA unit of CNA Financial Corp. has chosen Accenture Ltd. to administer its closed book of annuity and retirement-related business.The 5-year contract calls for Accenture ...
May 13, 2008
Quake May Have Affected Western Life OfficesSeveral life insurance joint ventures with Western partners have offices in a city close to the epicenter of the earthquake that struck China Monday.Western insurers ...
May 13, 2008
Advisors' mistakes to avoidPassing up the opportunity to be known as the advisor who "truly gets me." Having lived through the last decade of faltering confidence in the investment and corporate markets, boomers lack trust. Transparency and prudent advising take on new meani
May 13, 2008
Medicare assets and expenditures30.8%: Percent of health care spending in the United States that goes to hospital care. 21.2%: Percent of U.S. health care spending that goes to physician or clinical services. 10.1%: Percent of U.S. health care spending that
May 13, 2008
CDA: LTD Claim Payments RiseThe major private U.S. disability insurers paid $7.7 billion in benefits in 2007, up 7% from the 2006 total.Benefits payments rose 4.3% at the Social ...
May 13, 2008
Data Is King, But Who Owns It?Data--specifically information about our customers--is the very lifeblood of the insurance enterprise. Not surprisingly, then, the subject of who owns the data and where it ...