Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
House Passes TRIA By Big Margin
By Arthur D. PostalLegislation extending the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act that specifically covers group life insurance for the first time was overwhelmingly passed by the House on Sept. ...
September 21, 2007
Taggart To Lead NAIFAJeffrey Taggart has succeeded John Davidson as president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.NAIFA, Falls Church, Va., and its 800 state and ...
September 20, 2007
Mental Health Parity Bills Move Toward CollisionThe House and the Senate are plowing ahead with work on bills that would require health plans, that cover mental health care, to apply the ...
September 20, 2007
Iowa Official Reports To Governor On LTCLong term care insurers have done of poor job of pricing their products, according to Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss.Insurers have often provided poor customer ...
September 20, 2007
Bush Asks For Short-Term SCHIP Extension BillHouse members may not get to vote on a streamlined State Children's Health Insurance Plan bill Sept. 25 after all.The law authorizing SCHIP is set ...
September 20, 2007
Sunshine State Adopts Military Sales RulesMembers of the Florida Financial Services Commission voted Wednesday to adopt new regulations in an effort to protect military personnel from unscrupulous financial services sellers.The ...
September 20, 2007
IRS Temporarily Stops Taking Letters About Minor Plan ChangesThe Internal Revenue Service will suspend one type of determination letter program while it prepares to receive a wave of defined contribution plan restatements.The IRS ...
September 20, 2007
Health Underwriting Gain DropsRising medical costs and increasing pressure to hold down premiums may be affecting medical insurance profits.U.S. health insurers' gain from underwriting health coverage fell to ...