Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Plan Disclosure Provisions Too Heavy, Critics Say
By Matt BradyProposed regulations to enhance disclosures to beneficiaries of retirement plans have drawn criticism from agents, brokers and the plans themselves as burdensome.The regulations are also ...
February 21, 2008
Calif. Blue Signs With On-Line Claims ServiceBlue Shield of California has agreed with MD On-Line Inc., Parsippany, N.J., to offer health care providers free online claims processing.The service will make it ...
February 21, 2008
Online Service Sees Further Drop In Term RatesPremiums for individual term life insurance policies continue to fall, reports a company that provides on-line insurance quotes to consumers.AccuQuote, Wheeling, Ill., expects life insurance ...
February 21, 2008
Online Service Sees Further Drop In Term RatesPremiums for individual term life insurance policies continue to fall, reports a company that provides on-line insurance quotes to consumers.AccuQuote, Wheeling, Ill., expects life insurance ...
February 20, 2008
High Court Rules On Retirement Plan SuitsIndividual participants in 401(k) retirement plans can sue to recover their losses, the Supreme Court ruled today in a case that created concern within the ...
February 20, 2008
Less Conventional Family Units Struggle With Retirement PlansMiddle-aged Americans who are single or married with children from prior relationships find planning for retirement is tougher than it is for those with "traditional" ...
February 20, 2008
Consumers Seek Improved Health Care Design: DeloitteAmerican consumers want greater online ties to health care providers and medical records, custom-made health insurance coverage and greater access to budding advances such as ...
February 20, 2008
Health Care Costs May Threaten Retirement: StudyThe rising cost of health care will cause a striking increase in the number of working Americans who probably won' t be prepared financially to ...