U.S. life insurers continued to have a hard time reaching consumers in October.[@@]
The MIB Group Inc., Westwood, Mass., says U.S. life insurers checked 3.2% fewer life insurance applications in October than they checked in October 2004.
In January, MIB found that U.S. life application activity rose 0.9%, but that increase was the first and last MIB has recorded since 2004.