Guardian Disability Insurance Brokerage, a regional insurance brokerage, has added seven agents and doubled the size of its Rockville, Md., offices, buoyed by increased sales despite a flagging economy.

The brokerage’s …  Read →

Employee benefits provider Unum has introduced a new product for small and mid-sized businesses across New York to help control costs, simplify administration and offer flexible benefits choice, the company …  Read →

The New York Insurance Department has approved an application by Empire BlueCross BlueShield to offer life and disability products.

The products, available through the New York-based affiliate, Anthem Life & Disability …  Read →

U.S. individual disability in force policies and sales premium grew, but not as fast as in past years, a new survey of disability insurance companies found.

In force premium grew nearly …  Read →

Employers who do not offer disability insurance to their workers are missing a key opportunity to boost their value to their employees, a new survey indicates.

Even though people consider their …  Read →

A Mays Landing, N.J., woman was indicted on charges that she illegally collected more than $4,000 by submitting fraudulent disability insurance claims.

Da’Lynn White, 30, faces charges of second-degree insurance fraud …  Read →

Philadelphia-based Lincoln Financial Group introduced a Family Care Reimbursement Benefit rider on its group long-term disability insurance product.

“Lincoln recognizes that there are often more than just physical challenges facing an …  Read →

People’s perception of their coverage in a disability diverges greatly from the reality, and most people aren’t as concerned about a disability as they are paying bills or unforeseen medical …  Read →

Large amounts of life insurance are purchased every year after people realize how their death would impact their families’ standard of living. Few people have given the same consideration in …  Read →

Larry Schneider, founder of Disability Insurance Resource Center, has published The Anatomy of Disability Income Insurance, a manual on selling disability insurance. Schneider draws on his 35 years of disability …  Read →