Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
SCOR May Acquire Gerling Reinsurance Activities
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, Sept. 5, 10:26 a.m. -- SCOR, Paris, and the Gerling Group, Cologne, Germany, are engaged in discussions with a view ...
September 05, 2002
Institute: Attacks Will Cost $40 BillionNU Online News Service, Sept. 5, 2:35 p.m. -- The Insurance Information Institute, New York, estimates that the total insurance loss from 9/11 one ...
September 04, 2002
Highmark Defends Surplus PositionNU Online News Service, Sept. 4, 2:45 p.m. -- Highmark Inc., Pittsburgh, is trying to defend its need for a high level of surplus.Highmark, ...
September 03, 2002
PWBA: Benefit Plans Can Sell Life Policies To TrustsNU Online News Service, Sept. 3, 7:15 p.m. -- The Pension Welfare Benefits Administration says employee benefit plans can sell individual life insurance policies ...
September 01, 2002
No-Lapse Guarantee Riders Redefine Cost Of Death Benefit ProtectionByWhich is less expensive? Whole life, universal life, or variable universal life?For a general question like that, the answer is, "It depends," with the variable ...
September 01, 2002
Fitch Says RBC Ratios Improved in 2001ByRisk-based capital ratios of U.S. life insurers improved in 2001, according to Fitch Ratings, Ltd., New York.The ratios improved to 366% at year-end 2001 from ...
September 01, 2002
Full Disclosure's Survivorship Life ReportFull Disclosures Survivorship Life ReportA key to a competent product analysis is knowledge of what each product is designed to do--its "ideal purpose" if you ...
September 01, 2002
SVL Product Design ObjectivesAllmerica Financial Survivorship VULLow premiums; maximum retirement income; long term values; flexibility; features; high target premiums.American General Life (AIG Inc.) Platinum Investor Survivor IIHigh target ...