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Key market for life insurance appears to be losing interest
Interest in life insurance products among people 60 and over appears to be waning, even though the age group continues to be responsible for the greatest increase in monthly sales.
Wellpoint, an Indianapolis, Ind.-based national health benefits provider, acquired a senior-focused health care delivery program as it seeks new opportunities in response to the effects of federal health reform.
Insurance agents battling Internet quote shoppers, carrier sites
The use of agency-company interface technology has improved the insurance agent-carrier relationship, and must continue to grow for agents to remain competitive as insurance marketers.
Low interest rates cause sleepless nights among life, P-C insurers
Low interest rates and political unrest are two insurance industry challenges that life insurers and property-casualty companies say keep them awake at night.
Curian Capital’s eight new territories include D.C., N.C. and N.J.
Denver-based registered investment advisor Curian Capital has added new sales staff in eight new territories, including South Jersey, Northwest North Carolina and Washington, D.C.
A federal court in Chicago, Ill., ruled unanimously that a beneficiary’s insurer has the right to designate $15,000 in life insurance policy benefits to a family member of its choice.
A property-casualty insurer trade group is continuing its push for the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on a reform and re-authorization bill for the National Flood Insurance Program.
The U.S. could save more than $1 trillion annually if it adapted another country’s universal health care system and opened up to change, a former U.S. president said at a recent conference.
Life insurance industry urged to ‘capture’ online opportunities
The number of people shopping online is expected to double in the next decade, and life insurance could benefit from that increase.
Nearly one-third of U.S. employers could stop offering health insurance when the federal health reform law takes hold in January 2014, according to a new study.
Federal health reform would add 10,000 jobs, $4.4 billion to Calif.
Lautenberg, Rubio want to cap TRICARE fees for military retirees
Health care cost at all-time high, despite lower rate of increase
Life insurers sell shares in British tech firm to Pa. company
FINRA estimate for IA SROs excludes monetary, administrative details
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year
Pa. broker adds $181,000 commission to $2.1M false insurance invoice
A.M. Best rates Pa.-based insurer’s outlook ‘negative’
With five-year plan stuck, House passes new short-term NFIP extension
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