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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
NAIC to Speak Up for Medigap
By Elizabeth D. FestaThe National Association of Insurance Commissioners is about to mount a fierce battle to defend the Medicare supplement insurance program against any efforts to cut coverage or revamp plan design.
September 20, 2011
Dodd-Frank: Consumer Groups Blast SEC Swap Conduct ProposalThe Consumer Federation of America is leading a coalition of groups that wants federal regulators to make the rules governing swaps involving pension plans and endowments as strict as possible.
September 20, 2011
How to make sense of global gloomMark Dodson, CFA, shares his thoughts on the current economic climate.
September 19, 2011
Boomers Vague on MedicareBaby boomers are more likely to think that Medicare is in for major changes than they are to understand basic Medicare program terminology.
September 19, 2011
Obama Team Targets Estate Tax, DRD, COLI, Life SettlementsThe Obama administration has unveiled a deficit reduction package that could impose a $6 billion hit on corporate-owned life insurance arrangements and raise $866 billion by turning the federal estate tax clock back to 2009.
September 19, 2011
PPACA: HHS Offers a la Carte Exchange ServicesThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it wants to let states perform the health insurance exchange-related functions they really want to perform and have HHS handle the other functions.
September 19, 2011
Actuary to NAIC Panel: How Much Experience Can You Handle?Norman Hill is asking drafters of an insurance experience reporting guide for more details about experience program data analysis capacity.
September 19, 2011
Feds to Rewrite ERISA Fiduciary Definition RevisionThe U.S. Department of Labor says it will re-do efforts to update the definition of fiduciary it uses in dealings with retirement plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.