Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Ramp Hires Cancer Survivor To Handle PR
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, May 7, 2004, 1:39 p.m. EDT -- Ramp Corp., New York, has hired Susan Boucher to be vice president of ...
May 06, 2004
AXA Reports Small Drop In RevenueNU Online News Service, May 6, 2004, 5:10 p.m. EDT -- The weakness of the dollar contributed to a drop in revenue at AXA ...
May 06, 2004
Travel Underwriting Challenged In CaliforniaByWashingtonFourteen life insurance companies face a lawsuit in California for allegedly denying life insurance coverage to people who travel to Israel.The 14 companies are accused ...
May 06, 2004
Life Policies May Back Lines Of CreditNU Online News Service, May 6, 2004, 3:43 p.m. EDT -- Ramp Corp., New York, has set up a new unit that plans to ...
May 06, 2004
Making Accelerated Benefits BetterModify The Survival RequirementTo The Editor:When I was medical director at a direct writing company, the claims administrators occasionally turned to me for an opinion ...
May 06, 2004
U.S. Group Disability Premiums Rose 8% In 2003ByU.S. insurers protected 1% more workers against long-term disabilities in 2003 than in 2002, and 3% more workers against short-term disabilities.In its latest group disability ...
May 06, 2004
The Traditional Top 3 Test Can Be DeceivingByIf you sell group long-term disability insurance, you want to work with an insurer that takes a flexible but sensible approach to risk analysis.One problem ...
May 06, 2004
New Research Reveals High Orphan RatesNearly one-third of individual life insurance policyholders in the U.S. believe their advisors have abandoned them. And approximately 25% of U.S. policyholders intend to purchase ...