Editor's Column
January 2012 »
Demonstrating Value– Brokers add value to the products they sell. There. I said it. Someone had to. Granted, telling readers of California Broker that professional health insurance agents matter fails to achieve the heroic stature of, say, telling a group of tri-corner hat-wearing Tea Party members that Fox News [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]