U.S. application activity for individually underwritten life insurance was down 1.9 percent in August year-over-year, all ages combined. August is typically a slow month, as summer lethargy begins to where off, activity should pick up.
MIB Group, Inc., Braintree, Mass., published this finding in its MIB Life Index, a measure of life insurance application activity in the US. Released monthly, the Index is based on the number of searches MIB life member company underwriters perform on the MIB Checking Service database.
Overall life insurance application activity was up 1.7 percent when compared with the same eight months of the previous year. August activity was slightly up from July, reinforcing the theory that things will pick up as the summer draws down.
U.S. application activity lost ground in the two youngest age groups and flat across older ages.