Doug Bailey is a journalist and freelance writer who lives outside of Boston. He can be reached at [email protected].
There were some promising signs in new numbers contained in the government’s Consumer Price Index report for March released this week. Prices are still going up, but it was the smallest increase in more than two years.
There are a record number of unfilled jobs in the industry, with one survey recently showing a 10-year low in layoffs and a 10-year high in the number of people quitting.
Powerful headwinds pounding the commercial real estate market could signal an impending economic catastrophe.
A coalition of insurance industry and healthcare leaders have formed a non-profit organization to help global insurers screen, test, and triage members to combat the baffling rise in excess mortality.
A survey of insurance industry CIOs and CFOs found they expect a deterioration of credit quality and a recession but ranked increasing yield opportunities.
CVS/Caremark has again drawn scrutiny by insurance regulators for allegedly running afoul of state laws allowing people to choose which pharmacy to use.
Banking customers already jittery about high inflation and fears of a recession have added tax returns to their anxiety list as filing deadlines approach, according to a survey by J.D. Power.
A massive April Fool’s Day line of severe weather wreaked havoc from the Deep South to the Great Lakes, with about 85 million people in the path. More than 400 tornadoes have been reported so far this year.
Squeezed between unrelenting inflation on one side and a sudden wobbly banking sector on the other, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday split the difference and raised interest rates just a quarter point.
The Insured Retirement Institute has unveiled its 2023 security blueprint, an ambitious and comprehensive roadmap for the association’s federal legislative and regulatory public policy agenda.
A new survey from J.D. Power saw, for the first time, a declining use of digital claims reporting despite seeing a sharp rise in the number of customers contacting their insurer for information.
A government rule to simply encourage insurance companies, retirement plans, and other financial institutions to consider ethical investments has become a focal point on the GOP’s war on “woke” capitalism and may lead to the first presidential veto of the Biden administration.
A survey of retirement plan participants reveals a wide gap between men and women in their confidence of their respective financial futures.
While insurtech primarily has focused on the top-level needs of the insurance industry, a North Carolina company says it has automated the cumbersome and time-consuming process of obtaining probate surety bonds.
Despite the high rates of failure and litigation, relatively few small business and start-ups carry business insurance, according to recent polls. Two insurtechs – LegalZoom and Counterpart – are forming partnerships to take advantage of this lagging market.
Northwestern Mutual again reported annual record sales , earnings, and dividends for 2022, in a year that saw many of its peers struggle to post mediocre returns.
Forcing dental insurance plans to adopt Medical Loss Ratio requirements similar to healthcare plans is “bad public policy’ says the National Association of Dental Plans, while the ADA fires back.
Despite a $566 million net loss in the fourth quarter, Corebridge Financial Inc. executives are upbeat about the newly branded company’s prospects for the year.
The messy estate of Lisa Marie Presley, which is likely leading to a protracted legal battle, sets a tragic example of estate planning issues that can lead to stress and heartache for surviving family members.
Maybe pigs can fly. The IRS, in an unusual statement late last week, said that millions of dollars in 2022…
