As sales of life insurance policies offering long-term care benefits rose 79% last year, women accounted for about 60% of sales.

AXA Advisors is accused in a proposed class-action suit filed in New York of overworking thousands of employees without proper compensation.

A lawyer in Florida has admitted to conspiring to fraudulently sell life insurance policies held in the name of AIDS patients.

Two senators from Pennsylvania are raising concerns about the federal tax treatment for life insurance policy sales and purchases.

Annuity sales increased 16% in the first quarter, reaching $60 billion, with variable annuity sales leading the way with a 24% increase in sales over the same period last year.

Philadelphia-based Lincoln Financial Group said its Lincoln Small Business area has increased its group group size to 2-14 lives.

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April showers appear to have brought an increase in individually underwritten life insurance applications, according to a monthly analysis.

United Prosperity Life Insurance Co. has signed an definitive agreement to buy Shenandoah Life Insurance Co., a Roanoke, Va.-based insurer that has been in receivership over financial concerns since February 2009.

Long-term care insurance agencies in Columbia, Md., and Rockaway, N.J., were among five recently recognized for showing the greatest growth in sales last year.