Editor's Column
December Issue 2011 »
Moving Forward While Nothing Changes... The “Super Committee” exhibited less than super ability to arrive at a compromise on finding $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion to trim from the budget over the next 10 years. And our weary country can no longer anticipate any real change in the near future. Perhaps, it is time we [Read More]
Insurance Insider News
by Leila Morris, January 25 »
IN CALIFORNIA
• Single-Payer Healthcare Bill Clears Senate Appropriations
NEW PRODUCTS
• Absence Management
• Web-Based Life App
• Long Term Care
• FSA and HRAs
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
• AIG’s Chartis and American General Merge Group Benefits
MEETINGS
• Retirement Income Summit
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
• Financial Stress Takes its Toll
• U.S. Workers’
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Surveys
Voluntary Benefits »
Our Annual Survey–Helping Clients–Think Outside the Benefits Box–Using Voluntary Benefits to [Read More]
HMO Survey 2011 »
Getting to the Core of California’s HMOs with Our Annual Survey How Do They All Measure [Read More]
Dental Survey 2011 »
Our Annual Dental Survey: You Know the Drill! by Leila Morris– Welcome to California [Read More]
New Insurance Products
January 25 New »
Absence Management Cigna's created the Vocational Support Services program to help prevent future workplace absences and make it [Read More]
January 10 New »
Dental Plans for Individuals United Concordia Dental now offers five new dental PPO plan designs to individuals through its iDental [Read More]
January 11 New »
Universal Life Symetra Life Insurance Company rolled out enhancements to its cash value universal life (UL) insurance product -- [Read More]
Featured Blogs
100 Years ofLife Settlements »
by Peter Katz– On December 4, 1911, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Grigsby vs. Russell, which is considered to [Read More]
Another Nail in STOLI’s Coffin »
by Peter Katz, JD, CLU, ChFC In PHL Variable vs. Price Dawe 2006 Insurance Trust Insurance Company, the Delaware Supreme Court [Read More]
The Tax Treatment of Life Settlements Revisited »
By Peter N. Katz In May of 2009, the IRS clarified its position on the tax treatment of life settlements by issuing Revenue Rulings [Read More]
Good News from LISA Meeting by Peter Katz »
LISA, the Life Insurance Settlement Association, recently held its annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C. As always, there was [Read More]