The following is text from a NAIFA GovWatch email alert that was sent out to members. The ramifications of Congressional action on both the life and health insurance industries are …  Read →

Fitch Ratings has downgraded a pair of ratings for health insurer CIGNA, citing several factors that have resulted in what it called some “modest tightening” of the insurer’s “financial flexibility.”

CIGNA, …  Read →

Employee satisfaction and the bottom lines for businesses improve with a strong benefits communication plan, a new white paper from Colonial Life suggests.

“Strong communication may be the single most important …  Read →

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is launching an automatic benefit increase option designed to protect life insurance beneficiaries from inflation.

Guardian also announced an automatic re-enrollment feature designed to …  Read →

Guaranteed life benefits were included in about 96% of variable annuities sold last year, an increase from the 87% that provided the benefit in 2004, a new survey finds.

Guaranteed life …  Read →

Individual and small-group health plan members are “considerably less satisfied” with their health plan experience than health plan members who work for larger groups, according to an annual study.

Plan members …  Read →

Dental insurer United Concordia has a new contract to provide services for nearly 113,000 eligible employees and retirees of the state of Maryland.

Under the terms of a five-year contract, the …  Read →

A key economic advisor to President Barack Obama would not rule out the possibility of taxing employer health benefits for employees – an approach the president opposed while campaigning against …  Read →

One of the Democratic senators working to reform health care in the U.S. has said he would consider taxing health insurance benefits, a move that

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus …  Read →