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Coverage starts November 9th

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Young People Driving Huge Life Insurance Application Gains: MIB

With a 4% growth rate for 2020 through the third quarter, life insurance application activity has “returned to pre-pandemic normal levels,” according to the MIB Life Index. The third quarter experienced the largest quarter-over-quarter gain since 2011 at 9.2%, MIB said, driven primarily by 12.8% growth in 0-44 age group and 9.2% growth in 45-59 age group.

NAIFA-New York Board Votes To Secede And Move To Finseca

The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors’ New York State chapter board made an unprecedented move to secede from NAIFA and affiliate with a newly created industry association, Finseca.

Study Reveals Perceptions About Life Insurance Ownership Around World

In South Korea, China, France and India the top reason for owning life insurance is to supplement their retirement income, whereas in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand, consumers are far more concerned about replacing the income of a wage earner.

LL Global Hires Head Of Insurance Research

LL Global, the parent company for LIMRA, LOMA and Secure Retirement Institute, today named Mark Poklar to lead its insurance research unit. He will report to Alison Salka, senior vice president and head of LIMRA Research.

Andrew McMahon To Become Guardian CEO

NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 23, 2020 – The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America’s Board of Directors announced today that

How Agents Can Benefit From The Insurance Industry’s Paradigm Shift

The insurance industry is in the midst of a paradigm shift. The rise in digitization is bringing a host of technologies that are disrupting the industry, while bringing new efficiencies and expanding business opportunities to everyone in the insurance value chain. It’s also changing the way we do business.

Regulators Begin ‘Personal’ Discussion Of Race And Insurance

The NAIC Executive Committee established the special committee this summer and gave it four charges and instructions to report back by the end of the year. Ray Farmer, South Carolina insurance commissioner and 2020 president of the NAIC, said the work will take much longer than that.