Life Insurance
Life insurance news and analysis, with coverage of life insurance market trends, and of life insurance regulatory, compliance and legislative issues .
Competition Is Fierce, So Life Policy Pricing Is Reaching Rembrandt Levels
By Timothy C. PfeiferIts 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
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
Sponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged WaySponge Policies Can Soak Up Assets In A Tax-Advantaged Way The recently enacted Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act calls for an estate tax ...
July 19, 2001
Traditional Lifes Pendulum Swings BackJust A LittleBy The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 227 points on the day this was being written, and the NASDAQ fell by nearly 76 points.Such swoons ...
July 18, 2001
UnumProvident Offers Extra Support For LTD And Accelerated Death Benefit ClaimantsNU Online News Service, July 18, 2:25 p.m. -- UnumProvident Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., has introduced the LifeBalance program, a new employee benefit program that ...
July 18, 2001
Insurance M&A Activity StrongNU Online News Service, July 18, 4:35 p.m. -- Mergerstat Holdings L.P., Los Angeles, says insurance industry mergers and acquisitions have bucked the slump ...
July 18, 2001
Moody's Skeptical About JapanNU Online News Service, July 18, 3:55 p.m. -- Moody's Investors Service, New York, has issued a bleak forecast for Japan's life insurers, citing ...