Life Insurance
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By Staff WriterThe issuer of a new temporary health insurance policy has named a distributor.Insurance Services of America Inc., Gilbert, Ariz., will be one of the agencies ...
October 30, 2007
Frank Fights For Broader TRIA BillThere is still a chance that Congress could take on President Bush and put group life back into a bill extending the federal terrorism risk ...
October 30, 2007
NAILBA To Represent Life Industry At Regulatory HearingA wholesale brokerage group will be speaking for the life insurance industry in a new round of discussions about the future of the current state-run ...
October 30, 2007
CIGNA To Set Example For Doctor Ranking ProgramsA New York official has hammered out what he hopes will be a model for health insurers that want to publish physician quality guides.New York ...
October 30, 2007
FINRA OKs Variable Life Settlement Broker-DealerThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has given Invescor Wholesale BD Inc. permission to expand into the secondary life insurance market.FINRA, Washington, is a broker-dealer group ...
October 30, 2007
Recent Social Security cost-of-living adjustments2008: 2.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,079 will see increase of $24 per month) 2007: 3.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,011 saw increase of $33 per month) 2006: 4.1% (avg. senior with benefit of $963 saw increase of $39 per mont
October 30, 2007
Boomers and Social SecurityOct. 15, 2007: Date the nation's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, filed for her Social Security retirement benefits - and she did it online. Casey-Kirschling was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, and will be eligible for
October 30, 2007
Social Security checks to rise a modest 2.3 percent in 2008The Social Security Administration announced Oct. 17 that seniors will receive an additional 2.3 percent in their Social Security checks beginning in January 2008, representing the lowest cost-of-living adjustment in four years. The average