Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Symetra Investors Go Separate Ways
By Staff WriterWhite Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. has agreed to pay $751 million in cash and two runoff property-casualty businesses for the White Mountains shares now owned ...
March 10, 2008
Carrier Rolls Out Individual Health Line In More StatesA unit of Humana Inc. is expanding availability of the HumanaOne individual and family major medical insurance products.HumanaOne, Waukesha, Wis., an individual health insurance subsidiary ...
March 09, 2008
Index Annuity Sales Were Flat In '07--But Still 'Amazing'Given the pounding that fixed index annuities have taken from regulators over the past 2 years, some observers have been predicting that FIA sales would plummet.
March 09, 2008
Variable Life Sales In 2007 Soared 19.2% Over 2006 ResultsVariable life insurance sales with single premiums included at 10% for the 38 companies reporting in the VALUE survey for the 4th quarter of 2007 were $802.7 million...
March 09, 2008
Life Settlements: What Are The Chances?The emergence of quantum physics shook up the world of relativity. (The main protagonists were Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein.)This was a clash of two ...
March 09, 2008
AHIP Offers Senate Panel Proposals To Tighten Medicare Advantage MarketingLegislation tightening regulatory oversight at both the federal and state level of the marketing of Medicare Advantage plans appears more likely as a result of ...
March 09, 2008
Due Diligence Is Crucial Part Of Any Life Settlement TransactionGiven the relatively young age of the secondary market for life insurance policies, conducting due diligence is an especially important part of any transaction as ...
March 09, 2008
The Producer's Role In Avoiding Misleading Ads"Puffery" is a legal term referring to promotional claims that express subjective rather than objective views. An example would be an advertisement declaring that amber-colored ...