Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation

  • 5 million reasons why I admire this industry

    By Bill Coffin  |  January 2, 2013

    It took 4,000 New York Life employees and agents just eight weeks to raise more than $5 million in its annual giving campaign, including $250,000 in Hurricane Sandy aid. It took Congress way longer than that to deliver no Hurricane Sandy aid, at all.

  • Ending it all

    By Bill Coffin  |  September 1, 2012

    Every year, more people die from suicide than from homicide. Is there anything the life insurance industry can do about it? As it turns out, there is.

  • MetLife Appoints Hele as CFO

    By Noah Guillaume  |  August 15, 2012

    John C. R. Hele will join MetLife as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Sept. 4

  • 2012 Industry Elite Awards

    July 1, 2012

    Each year, National Underwriter Life & Health salutes the best of the best in the life and health insurance industry, celebrating those who represent game-changing levels of market innovation, regulatory advocacy, industry reputation, community work, and emerging talent. Selecting winners from this year’s unusually strong body of nominations proved challenging,...

  • Just Giving It Away

    By Bill Coffin  |  May 22, 2012

    Last night, I won and lost $2,000 in the blink of an eye, and I feel pretty good about it, too.

  • What Would You Do?

    By Bill Coffin  |  February 2, 2012

    How a random act of kindness got me on national television defending a homeless person. I still can't quite believe how it happened.

  • The Catch: Patience-Based Rationing

    By Allison Bell  |  December 15, 2011

    Doctors expect patients to wait longer to get care, California Blue Shield complains about a hospital’s prices, and more.

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