National Underwriter Life & Health Magazine January 22, 2007
Cover Story
Confronting Call Reluctance
There will always be times when a financial professional won't "feel like" making calls. For the intermittent phone-avoider, this article won't be too helpful.
Focus
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Health Costs Back Burner Some Employers' Voluntary Benefits
In LIMRA's recent survey of top employer benefits concerns, providing employees with adequate yet affordable medical insurance options remains a top priority among employers. The ...
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Managing Compliance Risks Associated With Worksite Marketing
Worksite marketing can be profitable for those who invest the time and energy in learning how to efficiently and effectively penetrate it. However, the potential ...
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Life Settlement Growth Has Reinsurers Reassessing Risk
Reinsurers need to better manage risk to reflect the growth of the life settlement market, according to life reinsurance experts, who say part of this ...
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Advisors Save Time, Learn More With Web-Based Training
In 2003, my company faced a critical challenge: how to effectively deliver training to a nationwide field force. The solution, we found, lay in supplementing ...
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The Challenges Of AXXX Securitizations
In late October, Genworth announced the establishment of a $475 million financing facility to securitize the non-economic portion of AXXX reserves associated with a block ...
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New BlackBerry Offers Functional Gains
While mobile computing is still a tough sell in the slow-to-adopt-technology insurance industry, the makers of the popular BlackBerry wireless handheld device are continuing to ...
News
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Agency Grants $23 Million To States To Support More Home-Based LTC
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will award over $23 million in 2007 to states that move long term care recipients out of institutions ...
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Pennsylvania Joins Universal Coverage Race
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has unveiled a health care coverage proposal that builds on plans adopted in Massachusetts and announced in California.Rendell, a Democrat, proposes ...
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ACLI Supports NASD-NYSE Merger
The board of the American Council of Life Insurers has voted to support efforts by the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York ...
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Industry Alarm Over Deferred Comp Cap
The life insurance industry is voicing deep concern about provisions dealing with deferred compensation that were added to legislation raising the minimum wage that was ...
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Senate Not Buying House Line On Medicare Part D Changes
The Senate is seen as likely to act relatively promptly to amend legislation governing the prescription drug benefit under Medicare, but the sweeping modification to ...
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Appeals Court Rejects Maryland's "Wal-Mart" Insurance Mandate
A federal appeals court in Baltimore says state laws that give employers a choice between providing health coverage and paying a tax or fee violate ...
Opinion
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Where Did The Trillions Go?
Not too long ago all the talk was about the impending intergenerational transfer of about $10 trillion from the current crop of senior citizens to ...
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Yet Another
How likely is it that about a week or so after the governor of California, the nation's most populous state, unveiled a sweeping proposal for ...
