Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
September 23, 2024
Debate: Should COVID-Era Health Insurance Subsidies Be Extended?After 2025, the expansion of the premium tax credit will expire unless Congress acts.
September 19, 2024
Clients With LLCs Need a Business Continuity Plan CheckA recent Supreme Court could hurt any clients with continuity plans that were set on autopilot.
September 19, 2024
Fed Rate Cut Could Speed Up Some Annuity SalesClients who have been uncertain may now rush to lock in good rates, Jack Elder predicts.
September 18, 2024
Senate Finance Bones Up for Brutal Budget DebatesBut the highlight of the latest tax policy hearing was hints about avoidance strategies yet to be skewered.
September 16, 2024
Life Insurers Face a Young Consumer Awareness Gap: CapgeminiSamantha Chow believes that marketing woes will hurt insurers' efforts to tap the trillions soon to be transferred.
September 13, 2024
Fed Puts Life and Annuity Real Estate Under Magnifying GlassAnalysts estimate a severe crisis could cut 16 insurers' capital by more than 20%.
September 11, 2024
What the IRS Manual Tells Staffers About Life and AnnuitiesWhen agency bill collectors come calling, they hope to find sources of "collection potential."
September 11, 2024
Congress Gets a Nudge on 'Too Big to Fail' Life InsurersOne possibility could be giving state regulators new powers, an in-house analyst suggests.
September 10, 2024
High-Income Retirement Savers Still in a Post-Pandemic SlumpFor the top 5%, post-tax, inflation-adjusted income is 1.7% lower than it was before everything changed.
September 04, 2024
What Would Happen if a Big Insurer Failed?The effect of a major failure on state guaranty funds is not clear, according to a Fed economist.