Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Low Mortality Assumptions Could Hurt Buyers' Confidence In Life Industry
By Tim FitchLow Mortality Assumptions Could Hurt Buyers Confidence In Life IndustryBy"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."This famous insight from the great ...
July 19, 2001
U.S. Individual Life Sales Up 4% In First QuarterU.S. Individual Life SalesUp 4% In First Quarter ByU.S. life insurers are reporting slow growth in individual life insurance sales revenue for the first quarter.Survey ...
July 19, 2001
Will Tax Change Make Traditional Life Insurance Obsolete?Going forward, there will be much analysis of the recently enacted federal tax legislation and its impact on the life insurance industry.The predictors of doom ...
July 19, 2001
Competition Is Fierce, So Life Policy Pricing Is Reaching Rembrandt LevelsIts a commonly held belief that the pricing of life insurance is as much art as science. Given the fiercely competitive nature of the life ...
July 19, 2001
Proposed 2001 CSO Table Can Impact The Life Policies You SellByCurrent insurance company reserves are based on the 1980 Commissioners Ordinary Mortality Table.Over the past 20 years there has been certain tinkering with the Table--such ...
July 19, 2001
Codification Increased Insurers' SurplusAccounting changes, brought about by National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Codification of Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles, effective Jan. 1, 2001, increased reported surplus for ...
July 19, 2001
What Kind Of Life Insurance Should You Client Buy?What Kind Of Life Insurance Should Your Client Buy? My clients always ask me, as their attorney, the same two questions about life insurance: First, ...
July 19, 2001
Heres a Way To Put Life Back Into Life InsuranceHeres a Way To Put `Life Back Into Life InsuranceByWhile Americans have many different opinions and viewpoints, there is one issue that we all seem ...