Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Will Tax Change Make Traditional Life Insurance Obsolete?
By Norse N. Blazzard, Judith A. HasenauerGoing forward, there will be much analysis of the recently enacted federal tax legislation and its impact on the life insurance industry.The predictors of doom ...
July 19, 2001
What To Do When The VL Client Says, Oops, I Bought the Wrong ProductBy It happens every day in our line of work. Clients wonder if they purchased a product that best meets their needs. This is normal ...
July 19, 2001
Codification Increased Insurers' SurplusAccounting changes, brought about by National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Codification of Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles, effective Jan. 1, 2001, increased reported surplus for ...
July 19, 2001
What Kind Of Life Insurance Should You Client Buy?What Kind Of Life Insurance Should Your Client Buy? My clients always ask me, as their attorney, the same two questions about life insurance: First, ...
July 19, 2001
Sponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged WaySponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged Way The recently enacted Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act calls for an estate tax ...
July 19, 2001
Traditional Lifes Pendulum Swings BackJust A LittleBy The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 227 points on the day this was being written, and the NASDAQ fell by nearly 76 points.Such swoons ...
July 18, 2001
UnumProvident Offers Extra Support For LTD And Accelerated Death Benefit ClaimantsNU Online News Service, July 18, 2:25 p.m. -- UnumProvident Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., has introduced the LifeBalance program, a new employee benefit program that ...
July 18, 2001
Insurance M&A Activity StrongNU Online News Service, July 18, 4:35 p.m. -- Mergerstat Holdings L.P., Los Angeles, says insurance industry mergers and acquisitions have bucked the slump ...