Permanent Life Insurance
Permanent life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of the whole life, variable life, fixed universal life, variable universal life and indexed universal life markets.
September 21, 2022
Senate Finance Chair Broadens Inquiry Into Private Placement Life InsuranceThe mailing list now includes Prudential, Zurich and the ACLI.
September 21, 2022
House Panel Wants Insurers to Put Pay Ranges in Job DescriptionsThe House Financial Services Committee has suggested that insurers put pay ranges in job descriptions to promote transparency and pay equity.
September 20, 2022
Help Clients Reassess Their Life Insurance PoliciesOne reason: Some clients may still list ex-spouses as their primary beneficiaries.
September 20, 2022
John Hancock to Pilot 50-Cancer Detection TestThe insurer will pay 50% or 100% of the cost and will not get individual insureds' results.
September 19, 2022
10 States With the Highest Super Earner CutoffsTo rank in the top 5%, households in these states had to make a minimum of $465,000.
September 19, 2022
Life Insurers Should Plan for Stress: Barings' Insurance Head"Longer-term strategic views can help weather the storms experienced over the last couple of years," says Ken Griffin.
September 16, 2022
North American Life Insurers' Inflation Shielding Looks Strong: AnalystsShareholders may feel some bumps, but Fitch sees plenty of padding for annuity and policy owners.
September 15, 2022
Life Settlement Firm Sues John Hancock Over UL Cost-of-Insurance IncreasesAn Irish asset manager says the insurer singled out 1,500 universal life policies for unexplained COI changes.
September 14, 2022
Northwestern Mutual Adds a Long-Term Care HybridLincoln Financial has also done something unusual about its own life-LTC hybrid.
September 13, 2022
BroadRiver Buys Non-Cash Life Partners AssetsThe deal ends the Life Partners life settlement business bankruptcy story.