Trust emerges as key battleground for distribution, LIMRA panel agrees
INSURANCENEWSNET MAGAZINE
In this issue...
- Life insurance distribution: Bigger isn’t better unless you make it work
- Booming sales, big challenges bolsters attendance at LIMRA annual
- How AI Is Changing Life Insurance
- Indexed Universal Life: Tax-Free Promise or Costly Illusion?
- The triumph of daily victories — With John Nichols
- Patrick Crayton’s New Insurance Playbook
SPECIAL FEATURE
What lower interest rates mean to annuity payouts
The rate environment has shifted, and not every product responds the same way. Read More
From The Field
Making insurance easy has never been harder
Insurance has digitized many processes without actually redesigning the experience.
Quoting a new-venture motor carrier
A five-point checklist for agents.
The first 5 years of your career could determine the next 50
Wealth is determined by the habits you acquire during your early working years.
ADVISOR NEWS
Your client’s $3 million portfolio doesn’t tell you their insurance needs
Advisors should be thinking not about whether clients can afford a loss, but whether they want to absorb that loss.
NEWSWIRES
Rep. Bresnahan pushes for prior authorization reform in Congress
Rob Bresnahan, R- Dallas Township, announced Wednesday he has co-sponsored several pieces of legislation intended to speed up insurance approval processes and hold health insurers accountable when treatment doctors say patients need is delayed or denied. In a 2024 American Medical Association survey cited by Bresnahan, 94% of physicians said prior…
- Newly proposed federal rules would have "disastrous" impact on Medicaid, insurance funding, state says
- Keystone Enters California Market with Acquisition of Infinity Assurance Group: Keystone Agency Partners
- Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Says Expanding Health Care Access Is 'Top Priority' But Doesn't Provide Coverage For Campaign Staff
- Harlingen school board approves $21.2M health plan
- Cboe, Robinhood Announce Planned Launch of KPI Contracts
Annuity News
What lower interest rates mean to annuity payouts
The rate environment has shifted, and not every product responds the same way. Read More
Life Insurance News
John Hancock expands protection portfolio
BOSTON -- John Hancock announced enhancements to both its Protection IUL 26 product and its term life insurance portfolio, expa... Read More
National Life adds new index options to SummitLife IUL
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- National Life Group announced that two new indexes and four new index crediting options are now available... Read More
Time to revisit your clients’ life insurance coverage
Our value as advisors often lies in keeping an open line of communication year after year. Read More
Health/Employee Benefits News
Franklin County Hiring Human Resources Specialist
Franklin County is accepting applications for a full-time Human Resources Specialist focused on recruitment. Full-time county e... Read More
What will California's next governor do about healthcare? Here are Becerra and Hilton's plans
SACRAMENTO, CA., 9/ 30/ 2026— Angela Chang says the sticker shock never gets easier. But Chang, chief strategy officer at KCAL ... Read More
Harlingen school board approves $21.2M health plan
As part of a move to offset last year’ s $5.3 million shortfall, the school board’ s new $21.2 million self-insured employee he... Read More
Property and Casualty News
U.S. SENATOR TINA SMITH'S BIPARTISAN BILL TO EXTEND TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE, SUPPORT HOUSING CONSTRUCTION PASSES THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY
Senator Tina Smith's bipartisan legislation to safeguard the availability of terrorism risk insurance coverage passed the ... Read More
eMaxx Names Rob Gronkowski as Company Spokesperson
eMaxx today announced that Rob Gronkowski has been named company spokesperson. “eMaxx is a property and casualty provider built... Read More
Judge orders 11 State Farm documents made public in Oklahoma lawsuit
OKLAHOMA CITY— An interruption from the gallery briefly brought a high-profile homeowners insurance lawsuit hearing to a halt M... Read More
Insurtech News
Could AI in insurance drag employee morale down?
Fears about being replaced by artificial intelligence could be sucking morale out of today’s insurance workforce, as a Glassdoo... Read More
