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- Life Insurance: Death Benefits
- A death benefit is the payment you receive as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy. The death benefit may be paid as a lump sum or annuity. A death-benefit annuity may include a cost-of-living adjustment COLA to protect against inflation. In most cases, a death benefit is paid monthly....
- White papers 2003-09-08
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- For The Record.(Briefs)(Lucent Technologies Inc. ends death benefit for management retirees)
- Lucent eliminates retiree death benefit In an effort to restore profitability, struggling telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. is discontinuing a special death benefit for its management retirees. Lucent alerted some 31,000 Lucent eliminates retiree death benefit In an...
- Research articles 2003-01-27
- VA co. plans to buy death ben. reinsurance from two reinsurers. (variable-annuity death benefit; North American Security Life and First North American Life agreements with Swiss Re America and CIGNA Reinsurance)
- Swiss Re America and CIGNA Reinsurance have agreed to reinsure the guaranteed-minimum death benefit features of North American Security Life's and First North American Life's Venture and Venture Vision variable annuities. Under the agreement, the reinsurers will cover the amount of an annuity' minimum death benefit guarantee that exceeds the...
- Research articles 1995-10-23
- Transamerica Worksite ULs Add A Guaranteed Death Benefit Option.
- Transamerica Assurance Company, the Los Angeles worksite marketing arm of Transamerica Life Companies, says its newest worksite universal life policies include a guaranteed death benefit option. The option is available when level premiums have been p Transamerica Assurance Company, the Los Angeles worksite marketing arm...
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- VUL offers three death benefit guarantee options. (Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity's new variable universal life insurance policy)
- Aetna Life and Annuity's new variable universal life insurance policy, AetnaVest Plus, offers three optional guaranteed death benefit options. The three optional guarantee periods are for five years, to age 80 and to age 100; the different guarantee perioAetna Life and Annuity's new variable universal life insurance policy, AetnaVest Plus,...
- Research articles 1993-06-21
- Transamerica Worksite ULs Add A Guaranteed Death Benefit Option.
- Transamerica Assurance Company, the Los Angeles worksite marketing arm of Transamerica Life Companies, says its newest worksite universal life policies include a guaranteed death benefit option. The option is available when level premiums have been p Transamerica Assurance Company, the Los Angeles worksite marketing arm...
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- Pru To Launch Mutual Funds With Death Benefit Feature.
- Prudential Insurance Company of America will soon be introducing a new feature to its mutual fund product line: a death benefit. Prudential expects to release the new program, to be called "PruTector," in early September. The death benefit feature will assure investors that if they die,...
- Research articles 1998-08-24
- Accidental Disability or Accidental Death Benefit Coverage
- The purpose of this fact sheet is to clarify when a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System PFRS or the Public Employees' Retirement System PERS who is engaged in off-duty or outside employment may possibly be eligible for Accidental Disability or Accidental Death benefit coverage under the retirement...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Accidental Disability or Accidental Death Benefit Coverage for Off-Duty or Outside Employment
- The purpose of this fact sheet is to clarify when a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System PFRS or the Public Employees' Retirement System PERS who is engaged in off-duty or outside employment may possibly be eligible for Accidental Disability or Accidental Death benefit coverage under the retirement...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Prudential Annuities First to Offer New Generation of Guaranteed Protection Optional Benefits; Launch of Lifetime Five Living Benefit and Highest Daily Value Death Benefit Fills Gaps in Missing Protection for Retirement Planning
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Annuities, the domestic annuity business for Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), announced today that it has launched Lifetime FiveSM, a variable annuity optional living benefit that guarantees, subject to the program rules, five percent annual compounded investment growth for up to 10 years, and a five...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Plan would raise military death benefit by $87,580
- WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon unveiled a plan Tuesday to increase the death benefit for the families of military personnel killed since Sept. 11, 2001, and life insurance for all military members. Congressional members from both parties as well as the White House, which worked on the proposal with the...
- Research articles 2005-02-02
- MetLife Transfers Variable Annuity Death Benefit Exposure to Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking
- NEW YORK -- MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) and Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking ("SG CIB") today announced they have closed an innovative transaction in which Exeter Reassurance Company, Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MetLife, Inc., transferred a large block of Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit GMDB risk to Catalyst Re...
- Research articles 2006-01-26
- [836] Super death benefit tax-free for interdependent mother and son.
- May 29, 2005 (Weekly Tax Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Taxation Office ATO addresses interdependency relationships in "Interpretative Decision ID 2005/143". The decision permits mothers to receive a superannuation death benefit eligible termination payment ETP tax free in respect of a deceased...
- Research articles 2005-05-30
- Motorcycle death benefit leaves programme with mounting losses in Thailand.
- By Phusadee Arunmas, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 8--Insurers have proposed selling Ua-arthorn low-cost insurance at a flat rate of 500 baht per year and reducing coverage by one-third in order to rein in escalating losses. ...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Bank annuities add no-cost ADB rider. (Essex Corp. product; accidental death benefit)
- Third-party annuity provider Essex Corp, hoping to enhance its product line, has added a double-indemnity accidental death benefit ADB rider to its contracts. The rider, available in more than 30 states, is already being issued by four insurers, and the banks through which the company markets its annuities will also...
- Research articles 1995-03-20
- New Optional Benefit From American Skandia Seeks to Give Investors Added 'Peace of Mind' — Enhanced Beneficiary Protection Offers 50% of Contract Gain —
- Business Editors SHELTON, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 23, 2001 In response to a growing market call for products that offer investors increased beneficiary protection, American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. has introduced Enhanced Beneficiary Protection EBP, an optional variable annuity death benefit designed to help offset expenses beneficiaries may incur, such...
- Research articles 2001-02-23
- Payroll deduction UL has LTC accelerated benefit. (universal life, long-term care)
- Transamerica Assurance has added a long-term care accelerated benefits rider to its new payroll deduction universal life policies. The rider covers long-term and home health care and pays a monthly benefit equal to 2% of the base policy death benefit. It Transamerica Assurance has added a long-term care accelerated benefits...
- Research articles 1993-03-08
- ACLI asks IRS to extend proposed living benefit regs. (American Council of Life Insurance wants ruling on the tax status of accelerated death benefit insurance policies)
- The Internal Revenue Service has been urged by the American Council of Life Insurance ACLI to postpone the date on which new regulations on the status of the tax treatment of accelerated death benefits from life insurance will be enacted. The IRS originThe Internal Revenue Service has been urged by...
- Research articles 1993-06-07
- Court denies accident benefit for drug overdose. (California Supreme Court)
- A lower court ruling that ordered Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co to pay a death benefit on a policyholder who perished after a fatal overdose of cocaine was overturned by the California Supreme Court. The Supreme Court overturned the ruling on the basis that a voluntary act in which a...
- Research articles 1994-03-07
- 'Violent crime rider' targets AD&D. (accidental death and disability insurance)
- CIGNA Re is offering employers a violent crime rider for its accidental death and disability insurance (AD&D) that covers employees 24 hours a day, unlike most other felonious assault riders that only cover harm done during work. Group AD&D primary insurers can offer the plan, which includes a death benefit...
- Research articles 1994-09-12
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