Life Planning Strategies
Life planning strategies, with ideas about how to use life insurance and related products to help people and businesses get things done.
Federal Insurance Regulation?
By Melanie WaddellA bill was introduced into the House of Representatives on July 26 calling for the creation of an optional national regulator for the insurance industry. The House bill, which is companion legislation to The National Insurance Act of 2007 (S40), was introduced by Reps. Melissa Bean (D-Illinois) and Ed Royce...
June 27, 2007
New President for New York LifeNew York Life has a new president. Effective July 1, Ted Mathas will take the helm from Fredrick Sievert, who's retiring. Mathas will continue his role as chief operating officer.
June 01, 2007
Talk to the CommissionersArthur Stein, a planner from Bethesda, Maryland specializing in long-term care insurance, had this to say about the problem of the "bad apples" in the...
June 01, 2007
ACLI Responds To New York Times On Long-Term Care InsuranceAmerican Council of Life Insurers President and CEO Frank Keating made the following statement in response to the March 26 New York Times article "Aged,...
June 01, 2007
Long-Term Damage?These days you know there's trouble when the blogosphere takes up a subject, and blogging was hot and heavy after a recent spate of negative...
May 24, 2007
Lincoln Annuity Rider for DC PlansLincoln Employer Markets recently launched a new program for defined contribution plans called i4LIFE Advantage, an annuity rider on DC plans that gives participants the ability to convert their retirement plan savings into lifetime income with an opportunity for growth.
May 01, 2007
What McCarran-Ferguson DoesThe McCarran-Ferguson Act, passed in 1945, offers a number of benefits to the insurance industry that it would otherwise not possess due to federal antitrust...
May 01, 2007
Swept Away?The repercussions from Hurricane Katrina have not yet died down, and the effects may reach much farther than the need to rebuild. Insurance companies are on...