Long-Term Care Planning
Long-term care insurance news and analysis, including coverage of short-term care insurance, long-term care hybrid products, and other arrangements for paying for long-term and post-acute care.
How $90 A Day Evolved Into A $750,000 Insurance Benefit
By Ralph D. LeisleIn the mid-1990s, my client Irma Kaye (not her real name) and her son reviewed various long term care insurance options and benefit choices. Her ...
February 01, 2008
An Advisor's ResourceWhen Janet Schaefer's father died, the former health care administrator jumped in to help her elderly mother wade through mounds of paperwork. Where were the...
January 31, 2008
Top responses to LTCI objectionsSelect SMA readers offer up their best counterpunches to the most common excuses prospects have for not purchasing long term care insurance. Any good article about overcoming objections to LTCI is bound to include direct quotes from producers out
January 29, 2008
Genworth Offers New LTC RidersGenworth Financial Inc. has announced additions to its budget-priced long term care insurance product and expanded distribution.Genworth, Richmond, Va., introduced 2 optional riders for customers ...
January 21, 2008
Aetna Awards Grant To Senior GroupAetna Inc., Hartford, has provided a $25,000 grant to the Modern Maturity Center in Dover, Del.The grant will go to the organization's Day Break adult ...
January 13, 2008
LTC Claims Doubled From 2001 To 2005, SOA FindsLong term care insurers are developing extensive experience in managing claims and policies, developing more details on claims exposure, claims paid, and termination rates, a ...
January 13, 2008
LTC Claims Doubled From 2001 To 2005, SOA FindsLong term care insurers are developing extensive experience in managing claims and policies, developing more details on claims exposure, claims paid, and termination rates, a ...
January 03, 2008
CareGuide Obtains Working CapitalA health care management company says existing investors have agreed to supply $3.75 million in cash.CareGuide Inc., Coral Springs, Fla., is obtaining the capital through ...