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.
Ceridian Introduces Backup Dependent Care Finder
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, April 8, 2005, 5:31 p.m. EDTA Minneapolis human resources services firm has developed a Web tool for workers who find ...
March 11, 2005
Lawmakers Bring Back LTC Deduction BillSenators have introduced a bill that would let consumers deduct the cost of long term care insurance premiums from their taxable income.[@@]The same bill ...
March 02, 2005
Training Financial Advisors To Sell LTC InsuranceMost financial advisors avoid selling long term care insurance because they lack the knowledge, training and experience to do so. To effectively sell LTC, advisors ...
February 17, 2005
AIG Unit Enters Vision MarketNU Online News Service, Feb. 17, 2005, 3:22 p.m. ESTA New York insurer says a property-casualty unit is setting up an eye care insurance ...
January 21, 2005
Kanawha Unveils LTC ProductNU Online News Service, Jan. 21, 2005, 6:07 p.m. ESTA Lancaster, S.C., insurer has introduced a long term care insurance policy.[@@]The insurer, Kanawha Insurance ...
January 12, 2005
Researchers: Hospital Deals Weaken CompetitionHospitals really are teaming up to raise prices for managed care plan patients.[@@]Alison Evans Cuellar, a researcher at Columbia University, and Paul Gertler, a ...
January 12, 2005
LTC Costs Averaged $72,000 Last YearByThe average cost of long term care in the United States was $72,240 in 2004, according to a newly released study by Genworth Financial Inc., ...
December 15, 2004
LTC Carriers Upgrade ProductsLong term care insurance carriers are adding new product features in an effort to improve sales.[@@]- Aetna Inc., Hartford, has added a number of ...