Tighter regulation of sales, more mergers and continued capital building are three developments insurance carriers are likely to experience in 2010.
Sales of fixed annuities fell during the third quarter to $21.9 billion, a 21% decline from a year earlier, according to data from Beacon Research Publications Inc.
Following the tumult of 2009, advisers see better days ahead for their practices this year--with the majority of advisers now focused on growing their businesses again.
Oklahoma State University's athletic fund and Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. are embroiled in a legal flap over a failed funding plan for charitable insurance.
Standard and Poor's today downgraded The Phoenix Cos Inc.'s counterparty credit rating to triple-C+ from B-.
Apparently, a fair number of men and women think they can -- or at least, that's what a new poll finds
The office of New York insurance superintendent James Wrynn has ordered embattled bond insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. to halt claims payments.
The Labor and Treasury department have put out a request for information on the use of annuities in defined-contribution plans.
A recent lawsuit concerning a failed investment in a life settlement has exposed a new area of regulatory uncertainty and potential liability for registered representatives and their firms.
