Northwestern Mutual's new Planning & Progress Study is based on interviews with close to 1,300 people.
Americans feel more financially secure but more risk averse today than 10 years ago, according to Northwestern Mutual.
Insurance technology company Vertafore has acquired VUE Software, which sells systems that help insurers manage, and pay, their agents, brokers and other product distributors.
Vertafore Inc. — a major insurance technology company — has acquired VUE Software.
VUE Software sells systems that help insurers manage, and…
A new report from the CDC shows which states aren't doing much to care for pregnant women.
Or, at least, that's the story the new CDC prenatal care figures seem to tell...
Life insurer Federal Life Group has posted a new N-4 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its individual deferred variable annuity contract.
The Illinois carrier recently raised $35 million through a stock offering.
The Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower Health Education Act of 2019 passes in the House.
One of the recorded votes on amendments was on a jab at short-term health insurance.
This is a commentary on how one side effect of one part of the Green New Deal could create positive cash-flow for the Social Security & Medicare trust funds & ultimately, a path to altering the estimated 2035 depletion date. http://ow.ly/R6sO30oKXis #socialsecurity
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Analysts from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies are reporting new survey results that show loss of Medicaid coverage & individual major medical coverage has wiped out increased use of group health coverage. http://ow.ly/8nFG30oKXat Transamerica Center for Health Studies
The change appears to be due to loss of Medicaid coverage, and individual major medical coverage.
ICYMI: Clients have to be reminded about the importance of LTC planning—and that this is not always an issue that’s only relevant for those clients nearing retirement. http://ow.ly/C5dd30oKvLP #nursinghome #assistedliving #elderly
You better find out what your state's laws are, but regardless, start looking into LTC plans.
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck on multiple fraud & money-laundering charges in an alleged scheme that has entangled the Georgia Christian Coalition, which Beck also heads. http://ow.ly/82MD30oKWQu
The allegations relate to the Georgia Underwriting Association.
Washington state's new 'Cascade Care' plan could be more like a Centene plan than like Medicare for All. Here’s a look at 5 other things agents & brokers might want to know about the Cascade Care text. http://ow.ly/QSBy30oKEZy
Washington state's new 'Cascade Care' plan could be more like a Centene plan than like Medicare for All.
.Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has introduced a new term life insurance policy. http://ow.ly/DdhQ30oKzoU
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has introduced a new term life insurance policy.
The Minneapolis-based company will sell the policy through ind...
The percentage of Millennials who lack major medical coverage may have soared since 2016. About 16% of Millennials lacked health coverage in late 2018, up from 11% in 2016, according to Transamerica center analysts. http://ow.ly/nh0x30oKzbd Transamerica Center for Health Studies
The percentage of Millennials who lack major medical coverage may have soared since 2016.
Analysts from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies…
Michael Jay Markey Jr. of Legacy Financial shares his thoughts on The Green New Deal, championed & promoted by populist politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, turning social insurance program benefits into wages, with a guaranteed public jobs program. http://ow.ly/bMxu30oKy43 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Providing clients with viable LTC insurance alternatives can help them avoid the shock of unexpectedly facing the financial burden of paying for parents’ nursing home costs. http://ow.ly/C5dd30oKvLP #healthcare #annuity
You better find out what your state's laws are, but regardless, start looking into LTC plans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs HealthCare.gov, plans to hold the 2019 CMS Marketplace Agent and Broker Summit on July 1 at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
One highlight will be a panel discussion featuring agents and brokers.
A new product from Nationwide's life insurance units combines universal life insurance with cash indemnity long-term care benefits.
The LTC benefits feature will pay for informal care, and for care outside the United States.
Joni Tibbetts, vice president of product management, retirement and income solutions at Principal Financial Group, testified Tuesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on challenges to the U.S. retirement system.
A Principal Financial executive talked about the value of financial wellness programs.
Health IQ seeks to identify applicants who may be better risks.
Health IQ develops products aimed at people who may be healthier than ordinary underwriters think.
Partnering with health-care providers, some testing firms say, can help patients better understand their DNA results and integrate them into their care.
The family tree market has been a lot easier, and friendlier.
Commentary by Robin S. Weinberger and Peter N. Katz of Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA).
One challenge to measuring the value of a life insurance policy is knowing just what ought to be measured.
Here’s a look at the Q1 earnings reports from AIG, Athene USA, AXA, FGL Holdings, Primerica, HC2 Holdings Inc, Independence Holding Company and Triple-S Management Corp.
Here are more of the results that shape what products publicly traded insurers can sell, and at what price.
$30 trillion over 10 years: Most everyone would likely end up pitching in to cover that steep price tag, budget experts say.
Budget experts say that 'free' government-run health care could be expensive.
“My chief goal is to get across the finish line, on time, a robust and bipartisan Older Americans Act that will strengthen support for its bread and butter programs, while providing more flexibility for states to meet local needs."
—Sen. Susan Collins
Collins' team in the Senate includes both Mike Enzi and Bernie Sanders.
Expert insights by William H. Byrnes of Texas A&M University School of Law and Robert Bloink.
You better find out what your state's laws are, but regardless, start looking into LTC plans.
The Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower Health Education Act of 2019 bill would provide $100 million in funding for ACA public exchange marketing and public education programs.
One provison added to H.R. 987 could fund state efforts to start new, state-run ACA public exchange programs.
The Trump administration recently developed rules that might let a state bend Affordable Care Act health insurance benefits and underwriting rules if the proposed changes could help expand the number of people with health coverage.
No Democrats crossed party lines. Four Republicans did cross party lines.
Commentary by Stephanie Shields, vice president of broker sales at Aflac.
An Aflac executive has ideas about how to celebrate a major awareness month campaign.
New rules may affect clients who want the original Medicare Part A hospitalization benefits program to cover an operation it has not normally covered, or a Medicare Part D plan to cover a drug the plan does not think it ought to cover.
The change affects enrollees who are appealing original Medicare and Medicare drug plan claim decisions.
Here’s a look at what four insurers are doing and saying to support the 13th annual Disability Insurance Awareness Month campaign. Organizations mentioned include OneAmerica Financial Inc., Unum, Prudential and Guardian Life.
Here's a look at what Unum, Guardian, Prudential and OneAmerica are doing and saying about The Month.
Insights by Sa El, co-founder of Simply Insurance.
Here’s the second in a series of three articles about how to reach more life and annuity prospects online.
New survey data from Nationwide suggest the ability to counsel clients about Social Security may be a major factor in determining whether financial professionals keep, or lose, clients nearing retirement age.
The company is promoting a tool that might help advisors avoid 'getting the cold shoulder.'
Securian Financial says it will be developing annuities aimed at the bank distribution channel and offering the annuities already on its shelves through the bank channel.
The company plans to manage the effort through a team of six regional vice presidents.
Overall activity rose in April, according to MIB Group Inc.
Older buyers were still much more active than younger buyers.
“No one in America should be bankrupted unexpectedly by health care costs that are absolutely out of control,” Trump said. “No family should be blindsided by outrageous medical bills.”
Lamar Alexander said he expects to send the president a balance billing bill in July.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Northwestern Mutual over agents' classification as independent contractors instead of as employees.
One question was whether deducting expenses from agent commissions affected the agents' status.
Commentary by Bruce Bosco, vice president, business development, at AURA Technologies, an affiliate of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated.
The author makes the case that life insurers must think more about how they handle the applications.
We compared the U.S. life expectancy tables for 2016 with the tables for 2015 and found that the average number of years of life remaining increased for people ages 35 and older — but fell for people under 35.
If you're under 35, your time might arrive a little earlier.
The Primary Regulators of Insurance Vote Act of 2019 bill could make a state insurance commissioner a voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. The American Council of Life Insurers likes it.
The House and the Senate both have versions of the PRIVA bill. Each has bipartisan sponsorship.
Government lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject challenges from health insurance providers claiming that the U.S. government is still on the hook for the ACA risk corridors program payments.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are seeking about $5 billion of the total.
Analysts are predicting the subsidy bill could add $891 million in new annual state spending.
SB-65 could provide premium help for people with incomes up to 600% of the federal poverty level.
About 46% of the U.S. population took prescription drugs—and that's an improvement.
Among adults ages 60 and older, the share using prescription drugs is 85%.
Pharmaceutical companies will have to disclose drug prices in television commercials in the U.S. for the first time, as the Trump administration begins to put in place a plan to lower prescription costs.
Officials say a drug's wholesale acquisition cost is its real list price.
Insurer group Life Happens taps actor Brooke Shields to be the spokesperson for the 2019 Life Insurance Awareness Month campaigns. LIAM is in September, BTW.
Life Happens has named Shields to be the spokesperson for the September awareness month campaign.
Commentary by Peter Rosenberger, host of the national radio program Hope for the Caregiver.
For this caregiver, laughing seems like a good way to weather to storms.
The House Ways and Means Committee has given U.S. disability insurers a lift just in time for the May Disability Insurance Awareness Month campaign.
Rachel Greszler also talked about the idea of adding a universal savings account program.
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