Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
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By Staff WriterVIIAD Systems L.L.C. says it has come up with a new way to help insurers and other payers hold down health care costs.VIAAD, Newtown, Pa., ...
June 07, 2007
Measure Could End Same-Sex Couple Benefits PenaltiesLawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress that could equalize tax treatment of employer-provided health care benefits for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples.Current law requires ...
June 07, 2007
Lone Star State Warns Against STOLI SolicitationsTexas officials have sounded the alarm on what they say appears to be a sudden wave of invitations to agents to participate in "stranger-owned" life ...
June 07, 2007
Lone Star State Warns Against STOLI SolicitationsTexas officials have sounded the alarm on what they say appears to be a sudden wave of invitations to agents to participate in "stranger-owned" life ...
June 07, 2007
Massachusetts Nears Coverage Mandate DeadlineEnrollment in the new Bay State health insurance program for moderate-income residents reached 79,000 June 1, up 15% from the total recorded a month earlier, ...
June 06, 2007
Recordkeepers Form Trade GroupIndependent companies that help run 401(k) plans have started their own organization.The companies, independent 401(k) plan recordkeepers, have set up the Council of Independent 401(k) ...
June 06, 2007
SOA: Industry Could Survive Flu PandemicThe U.S. life insurance industry could handle a severe influenza pandemic reasonably well.Actuaries at the Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, Ill., have published that prediction in ...
June 06, 2007
Guardian: Smaller Employers Like Simpler PlansBenefits decision-makers at smaller companies appear to have somewhat different attitudes about benefit plans than decision-makers at bigger companies do.Researchers at Guardian Life Insurance Company ...