The parent company of Old Mutual Life Insurance Co. and its subsidiary, OM Financial Life Insurance Co. of New York, said today (March 11) it is considering selling off both companies.   Read Story

Legislation has been introduced to permit risk retention groups to write commercial property coverage, expanding their role from the selling of liability insurance only.  Read Story

LifeCare Gateway, a Pennsylvania-based provider of web-based services and other marketing support to financial service professionals, signed a deal to offer Health Advocate’s health resolution programs to its roster of services.  Read Story

Overall U.S. life insurance application activity ended its six-month roll, showing a slight decline in February, according to a monthly analysis.  Read Story

Fewer than half of American workers said they had put pencil to paper, trying to calculate how much they need to save for retirement, a new study found.  Read Story

A California man was arrested for allegedly attempting to extort $200,000 from a New York-based life insurance company by threatening to send false statements about the company in emails to customers and insurance agents through a spam email campaign.  Read Story

Last week’s much-awaited episode of “The Office,” the NBC sitcom detailing the lives of workers at Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. in Scranton, Pa., took an easy, but at least humorous, ...  Read →  Read Story

People who are in the manufacturing sector of the economy fear losing health insurance, despite the fact that its employees have historically not had to fear loss of coverage, a new survey finds.  Read Story

A Jersey City, N.J., man was barred by FINRA for his mishandling of life insurance proceeds and his deceased friend’s estate.  Read Story

The merger of Group Benefit Services with Client First Brokerage Services late last year has spawned an expansion of education programs originally offered by Client First.  Read Story