Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Long Term Care Insurance: The Policy That Customers Keep
By Marianne C. PurushothamLong term care insurance policies continue to experience higher levels of policyholder retention than other insurance products-including life, annuities and disability products.Despite the continued lack ...
April 26, 2007
Fitch, Actuaries Forge Ahead On PBREfforts to advance a more principles-based system for ensuring proper reserves and capital are occurring both on the regulatory and rating agency fronts.During a discussion ...
April 26, 2007
House Acts To Ban Genetic Tests For InsuranceWASHINGTON--The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday that bars discrimination in insuring people based on genetic testing.The House bill, H.R. 493, has the support of America's ...
April 26, 2007
House Acts To Ban Genetic Tests For InsuranceWASHINGTON--The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday that bars discrimination in insuring people based on genetic testing.The House bill, H.R. 493, has the support of America's ...
April 26, 2007
Top Firms' Pension Status Improved: AnalystBoosted by a strong stock market in the second half of 2006, pension funds in the Standard & Poor's 500 reduced their underfunding from $140 ...
April 26, 2007
Group DI Sales Pass $12 Billion Last YearU.S. group disability inforce premium grew around 7% in 2006, from aboout $11 billion in 2005 to more than $12 billion, according to a survey ...
April 26, 2007
Congress Debates Improved State Of Trust FundsWASHINGTON--Social Security and Medicare trust funds will remain solvent a year longer than previously estimated, fund trustees report.The report prompted an intense effort by members ...
April 26, 2007
NAIC Looking To Results Of VA SurveyState regulators are awaiting results from a survey of variable annuity companies designed to help the regulators judge the adequacy of a proposed reserve model ...