Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
February 09, 2024
SEC Hits 16 Firms With $81M in Texting FinesThe firms agreed to pay the SEC combined civil penalties of more than $81 million.
February 08, 2024
Consumers Went Shopping for Life Insurance in JanuaryInsurers fed 4.7% more individual coverage applications into MIB systems than a year earlier.
February 08, 2024
How to Opt Out of Inheriting an IRABeneficiaries seeking to avoid gift and income tax consequences can execute a "qualified disclaimer" to decline the inheritance.
February 08, 2024
More Pain Coming For U.S. Office Market: PrudentialRobert Falzon, an executive vice president, expects the trough values to drop another 10% to 15%.
February 07, 2024
Equitable Faces Wall Street Annuity Love GapDespite benefiting from a strong selling environment, the insurer is "getting a pretty low valuation," one analyst argues.
February 07, 2024
Life Happens to Stick With Influencer-Based StrategyBrian Steiner, the nonprofit's new leader, believes that social media regulars help the group reach more market nooks.
February 07, 2024
Are Insurance Company Lenders Dangerous?Two econonomists are nervous about the idea of tougher bank regulation pushing corporate borrowers to nonbank lenders.
February 06, 2024
When Clients Are Laid Off, How to Ease the Sting: Advisors' AdviceAdvisors helping clients through low moments can set themselves up to retain business when good times return.
February 06, 2024
Great Recession Saved Lives: ResearchA working paper found that 4% of 55-year-olds gained an extra year of life.
February 06, 2024
'Annuity King' Gets 15-Year Sentence, Files AppealPhillip Roy Wasserman, convicted of defrauding insurance company investors, is set to begin serving time Feb. 23.