Life Insurance News

Seritage Growth Properties, a national owner and developer of retail, residential and mixed-use properties, announced that today the Company has made a voluntary prepayment of $20.0 million toward its $1.6 billion term loan facility provided by Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska. With the prepayment, the Company has now repaid a total of…

AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ a-” of Kansas City Life Insurance Company. At the same time, AM Best downgraded the FSR to B+ from B++ and the Long-Term ICR to“ bbb-” from“ bbb” of Grange Life Insurance Company. Concurrently, AM Best has revised the outlook to…

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++, the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ bbb” and the Vietnam National Scale Rating of aaa.VN of Bao Minh Insurance Corporation. The outlook of these Credit Ratings is stable. The ratings also factor in the neutral impact from BMI’ s majority owner, State Capital Investment Corporation, which is the sovereign…

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of“ aa” of Minnesota Life Insurance Company and its subsidiary, Securian Life Insurance Company, together referred to as Securian Financial Insurance Group. Concurrently, AM Best has affirmed the FSR of A and the Long-Term ICR of“ a+” of Securian Casualty Company.

Mr. Boyle will leverage his extensive leadership experience transforming major financial institutions to advance Star Mountain’s mission of creating long-term value in the lower middle-market. James R. Boyle, Senior Advisor at Star Mountain Capital. Mr. Boyle served as President and CEO at Foresters Financial.

The following information was released by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners:. The life insurance market has undergone substantial changes in recent years, driven by prolonged low interest rates, evolving consumer preferences, more complex investment practices, and increaseduse ofreinsurance. These shifts have introduced new…

U-Haul Holding Company, parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, on December 3, 2025 declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share on its Series N Non-Voting Common Stock. U-Haul Holding Company is the parent company of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life…

Companies offering commercial, health and life insurance were posting ever higher pre-tax operating gains, but not those in the auto and home insurance segments, said Robert Passmore of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. Data he presented to a special committee of the House of Representatives showed industry gains in that“ personal”…

Expansion of Venerable’ s strategy to include variable annuity flow reinsurance was announced in June of this year as part of the landmark agreement with Corebridge Financial, Inc. which also included reinsurance of $51 bn of variable annuity business from American General Life Insurance Company and The US Life Insurance Company of New York.

Christopher L. Gandy, founder and CEO of The Legacy Wealth Group LLC, has been elected president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors for the 2026–2027 term

MetLife, Inc. today announced it has completed its previously announced $10 billion variable annuity risk transfer transaction with Talcott Resolution Life Insurance Company, a life insurance and annuities subsidiary of Talcott Financial Group. The transaction reduces portfolio risk, accelerates the run-off of MetLife’ s legacy blocks of business and…

Recently, you wrote an article explaining hospice. Going through a well-known funeral home in my area, I would have had to pay over $3,000 for cremation plus $7,000 to bury my mother's urn on top of my father's casket. To my amazement, I only had to pay a pre-approved price of $995 with a funeral facility that was on this specific hospice company's approved funeral…

One of the biggest mistakes people make is naming minor children as beneficiaries on accounts and policies. The thought is "I'll avoid probate court because I have beneficiaries named and they'll get the money directly." This is only partly true.

Seritage Growth Properties, a national owner and developer of retail, residential and mixed-use properties, announced that today the Company has made a voluntary prepayment of $130.0 million toward its $1.6 billion term loan facility provided by Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska. With the prepayment, the Company has now repaid a total…