September 03, 2010 A study by two nonprofit organizations finds employees contributing a greater share of their employers’ health care coverage than they did last year.... September 03, 2010 Variable annuities (VAs) carrying a guaranteed living benefit rider generated $20.3 billion of new deferred VA premium in the second quarter of 2010, an 18% increase over the first quarter, according to a new study.... September 03, 2010 The number of workers signing up for life insurance benefits increased to 69% in 2010 from 64% in 2009, according to a new report.... September 03, 2010 Older workers’ have become more assured of their ability to retire comfortably has rebounded modestly in the past year, although they are still not as confident as they were before the financial crisis, a survey finds.... September 03, 2010 Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Horsham, Pa., has hired Timothy Thompson to be manager of the Dougherty Agency’s new office.... September 02, 2010 Bank annuity sales fell to $2.8 billion in June from $3.6 billion in the same month a year earlier, a monthly survey by Kehrer-LIMRA finds.... September 02, 2010 Almost half of employers say they are unsure what impact health care reform would have on the benefit coverage they offer in the next five years, according to a recent survey by Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company.... September 02, 2010 Joseph A. Frick will retire as president and chief executive officer of Independence Blue Cross (IBC), the company announced.... September 02, 2010 The Life and Health Foundation for Education has launch a new Facebook application and contest for Life Insurance Awareness Month, which began Sept.1.... September 02, 2010 The Lifeline Program announced that entertainer Betty White has renewed an agreement with the company to help promote life insurance settlements to seniors.... September 02, 2010 Life insurance rates have been edging upward for the past 24 months but are still affordable, an online life insurance agency says.... September 01, 2010 A new report warns of the harmful impact of underestimating life expectancy on pension plan liabilities.... September 01, 2010 Voluntary critical illness insurance sales were up in 2009, while cancer insurance sales declined, according to he U.S. Worksite Sales Report from Eastbridge Consulting Group.... September 01, 2010 Julian H. Good Jr. of MetLife/Creative Financial Solutions, New Orleans, has assumed the duties of president of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT).... September 01, 2010 Humana Inc. (HUM) announced it has been awarded three contracts with the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration.... September 01, 2010 Participants in employer-based retirement plans are showing no signs of panic in the face of a market downturn, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company finds.... September 01, 2010 Seven in 10 women say they could work until age 65 and still not have enough saved for their retirement needs, the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies finds.... September 01, 2010 Two companies serving the life settlement market have become clients of a New Jersey public relations firm.... August 31, 2010 Variable annuity sales for the top 17 carriers in the second quarter rose to $11.8 billion, from $10.3 billion in the first quarter, according to the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI).... August 31, 2010 A new study has uncovered a gender gap in life insurance coverage between working, married men and women with children under the age of 18.... August 31, 2010 A northeastern insurer is unveiling a series of sales and marketing programs it hopes will help it to boost its share of the middle market for defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans.... August 31, 2010 Employer-provided retirement plans were available to 74% percent of all full-time workers in private industry in March 2010, down from 76% a year earlier, Federal data show.... August 30, 2010 The number of individuals owning life insurance has hit a 50-year low, according to a new study.... August 30, 2010 A consolidation movement could be developing among small health insurers in response to the demands of healthcare reform, a rating agency says.... August 30, 2010 U.S. sales of fixed annuities topped $19.4 billion in the second quarter, according to a new report.... |
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