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- a life insurance policy that will pay out upon the death of the life insured, or in the event of the death of the first life insured (with a joint...
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- Life Insurance and Annuities: Is AARP Looking Out for You?
- We analyze whether the giant organization's senior-focused life insurance and annuities are worth buying. Life insurance and annuities offer...
- Articles 2009-08-05
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- Shaping The Customer Experience: Key To Expanding Term Insurance Opportunities
- There is an old saying in the life insurance industry that life insurance is sold, not bought. Years ago, this was largely true; most insurance carriers built their companies on vast networks of captive brokers/agents who sold complex products on a one-on-one basis. Term insurance, however, tends to be bought,...
- White papers 2009-01-12
- Term insurance premiums take a nosedive
- FIERCE COMPETITION in the term insurance market stepped up this week when three more insurance companies, Tesco Personal Finance, Friends Provident and Royal & SunAlliance, slashed premiums. As a result of the interest-rate drop, and people living longer, it is becoming cheaper to cover any given sum....
- Research articles 2002-04-27
- Short-Term Insurance Helps Appleton, Wis., Workers Fill Job Gap.
- By MaryBeth Matzek, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 30--Losing a job just doesn't mean losing a paycheck. It means losing your health insurance. And living without that protection is a scary -- and possibly financially-draining...
- Research articles 2002-12-30
- Insurer sends wrong benefit information to long-term care enrollees
- A long-term care insurance provider sent letters with incorrect information about benefits and premiums to tens of thousands of federal enrollees."Getting accurate, easy to understand information to our enrollees in a timely manner is my top priority," Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said in a statement. "All companies...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co.(Insurance Online Network)(Brief Article)
- Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. now provides online term insurance quotes through the Insurance Online Network. Participating institutions have access to term insurance quotes from ... Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. now provides online term insurance quotes through the Insurance Online Network. Participating institutions have...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Term Versus Whole Life Insurance
- Term insurance, also called temporary insurance, covers a person against death for a limited time. You pay for the coverage period and at the end of the term the contract, or policy, expires. Whole Life insurance, also called permanent insurance, is permanent and does not expire (assuming you continue to...
- White papers
- General American reprices level term. (General American Life Insurance Co.)
- General American Life Insurance Co has two new level term policies and one new annual renewable term policy. The firm is not waiting for changes in the policy reserve law for level term insurance companies to be implemented by Jan 1, 1995 to offer these policies. The rate guarantee periods...
- Research articles 1994-06-13
- How To Avoid The Premature Death Of An Existing "Permanent" Life Insurance Policy
- This article focuses upon how to avoid the premature death of an existing "permanent" life insurance policy. A high percentage of existing "permanent" insurance policies will not make it to the finish line. They will fall apart before the deaths of those they insure if the insured lives a long...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fortis Health Sees Demand For Short-Term Insurance.(Temporary health insurance)(Brief Article)
- With an increase in layoffs and unemployment occurring across the nation, short-term medical insurance can fill the gap for those who are between jobs. With an increase in layoffs and unemployment occurring across the nation, short-term medical insurance can fill the gap for those...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Going up: insurers are reaching middle-income Americans with new term life products that have sent sales soaring.(Life: Term Life)
- Laddering is a popular concept in the purchase of bonds or certificates of deposit to mitigate interest-rate risk and provide steady income. Using this technique, investors build equal amounts of short-, medium- and long-term bonds and CDs into their portfolios. Now life insurer Axa...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Term-only insurance licensing plan blasted; Agents, regulators criticize legislation eyed by several states.(News)
- Byline: Gary S. Mogel NEW YORK - An adviser and agent trade group, as well as several regulators, are blasting proposed legislation that would create insurance licenses to sell only term insurance, saying they are opposed to diluting licensing requirements. ...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Auto and Homeowners Insurance: Is AARP Looking Out for You?
- The nonprofit behemoth promises to save you money and provide great service. But does it deliver? Here's how to decide if AARP policies are right for you. As part of our continuing analysis of AARP’s financial services products (earlier stories...
- Articles 2009-08-26
- Insurers' bank marketing of term life diverges; Middle market, emerging affluent targeted.(News)
- Byline: Gary S. Mogel NEW YORK - Two major life insurers are ramping up their marketing of term insurance through banks but are taking very different approaches, according to company executives. ING U.S. Financial Services in...
- Research articles 2006-04-17
- Agents aren't the only ones guilty of spreadsheeting. (insurance agents, ranking insurance policies) (Agent-to-Agent ) (Column)
- A three-part Consumer Reports' CR article rating life insurance products has caused concern within the life insurance industry. Not only has the article raised questions about the methodology of the rankings, but also on whether policies can be ranked at all. Although CR may at first glance appear unbiased, there...
- Research articles 1993-09-20
- An Update on Life Insurance Company Web Sites
- This paper summarizes the features of term insurance products being sold in the Australian life insurance market at 31 August 2003. The data gathering process for that investigation included visits to the web sites of many life insurance companies and friendly societies. That process afforded some insights into how the...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Pivot and SmartMoney Announce Launch of Co-Branded Insurance Quotes Center Site
- COLUMBUS, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--March 22, 1999--Pivot and SmartMoney announced today the launch of a fully interactive Pivot micro-site within the SmartMoney.com Insurance Quotes Center. This co-branded site will provide users of SmartMoney.com with the ability to calculate their appropriate amount of life insurance, as well as complete instant on-line term insurance...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Prudential Financial Introduces the Second in a Series of Educational Tools to Help Consumers with Life Insurance Choices
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Protection For Life...The UL Alternative Suggests A Universal Life Insurance Policy As An Alternative to Term Insurance
- Research articles 2004-06-24
- Prudential Financial Reprices Its Term Insurance Products
- Term Essential([R]) and Term Elite([R]) Utilizes Age-Last Birthday
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Terror threat is long-term; insurance market may need to adjust, says CBO.(EPN News Roundup)(Brief Article)
- There has been "a growing sense that the terrorism threat to the United States will continue for the foreseeable future," according to a recent Congressional Budget Office CBO report, and Congress should weigh this factor in deciding whether to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act TRIA....
- Research articles 2005-01-11
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