Life insurance remains a big draw for employers’ benefits
These days, competition for high-quality employees has increased significantly in many fields. As a consequence more employers are seeking to boost their edge over their rivals by increasing the benefits offerings extended to both incoming and existing employees.
Annuity sales went up appreciably in the second quarter
The life insurance and annuities sectors haven’t had the easiest go of things in the time since the economic downturn began, but it seems that the latter took a fairly significant step forward in the second quarter of the year.
Which Global Changes Will Most Impact the Life Insurance Industry?
These days, the world seems to be changing more rapidly than ever before, and the new facts of life that these shifting realities bring are something to which everyone must react in some way.
U.S. life insurance sector expected to rebound
Over the past several years, life insurance issuers have likely learned the hard way that the recovery hasn’t been uniform, and many companies may have continued to struggle despite broader economic improvement.
Regulators may make life insurance industry harder to navigate
One of the things that’s most often cited by those in the life insurance industry as a potentially major impediment to future growth is heavy – and growing – oversight from regulators at both the state and federal levels.
No surprise: Consumers generally don’t have enough life insurance
Over the past several years, the life insurance industry has struggled to reach many consumers in the ways it used to, for a number of reasons.
Life insurers get good news from U.S. Senate decision
For the past few years, since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, there has been a lot of uncertainty about the ways in which insurance companies had to conform to capital standards.
Important considerations for new parents buying life insurance
One of the biggest life changes people generally go through which prompts them to buy life insurance coverage for the first time is when they are having a baby.
Many small business owners eschew life insurance?
These days, millions of Americans may finally be returning to buying life insurance policies after years of not doing so caused by the financial downturn.
Colorado may put life insurance on ACA exchange
Many life insurance companies have, in the time since the recession ended, tried to do a lot more to reach consumers who might be interested in buying their policies but had not been able to do so in years past.