Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
UL And Mortality Measures Go To Full NAIC
By Jim ConnollyA National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel has cleared a pair of major life insurance underwriting proposals for top-level review.Regulators serving on the NAIC's Life ...
August 30, 2006
WellPoint Forms Business UnitsA large health insurer is realigning its operations.WellPoint Inc., Indianapolis, will be putting some of its business in a commercial and consumer business unit, and ...
August 30, 2006
Allstate Patents FA Crediting MethodsThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent that will protect a technique a large insurer is using to calculate crediting rates for ...
August 30, 2006
Principal To Waive HRA And HSA FeesA large insurer is trying to use discounts to persuade employees to open personal health accounts.Principal Financial Group Inc., Des Moines, Iowa, says it temporarily ...
August 30, 2006
NAIC Arm OKs Preferred Tables, AG 38A key panel of regulators has endorsed a multipart measure that could affect both issuers of universal life policies and insurers that use preferred mortality ...
August 30, 2006
NAIC Arm OKs Preferred Tables, AG 38A key panel of regulators has endorsed a multipart measure that could affect both issuers of universal life policies and insurers that use preferred mortality ...
August 30, 2006
Low Rates Hurt Fixed Annuity VolumeU.S. fixed annuity sales fell to $17.9 billion in the second quarter, down 14% from the total for the second quarter of 2005.Sales of indexed ...
August 30, 2006
Low Rates Hurt Fixed Annuity VolumeU.S. fixed annuity sales fell to $17.9 billion in the second quarter, down 14% from the total for the second quarter of 2005.Sales of indexed ...