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Consumers need more education to help them understand how affordable life insurance can be. (AI-generated image)

The 2025 Insurance Barometer survey shows fewer consumers are knowledgeable about life insurance, showing a need for more education about the product.
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Increases in total Medicare spending threaten the program’s sustainability while increases in Medicare enrollment contribute to those spending increases. (AI-generated image)

Increases in total Medicare spending threaten the program’s sustainability while increases in Medicare enrollment contribute to those spending increases.
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A Florida bar brawl that left a woman fatally shot has become a multimillion-dollar liability dispute with potential ripple effects nationwide on how carriers handle claims when catastrophic losses exceed policy limits. (AI-generated image)

A Florida bar brawl liability dispute could have potential ripple effects nationwide when catastrophic losses exceed policy limits.
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Agent associations are speaking out against a new federal policy that they say is hindering agents from enrolling people in coverage on the federal health insurance marketplace. (AI-generated image)

Health agent associations are speaking out against a new federal policy that they say is hindering agents from enrolling people in coverage on the federal health insurance marketplace.
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AIG, after surviving scandal and shaking off a government takeover, is moving into what its top executive described as a “new chapter." (AI-generated image)

AIG, after surviving scandal and shaking off a government takeover, is moving into what its top executive described as a “new chapter”
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Total U.S. annuity sales increased 8% year over year to a record high $119.5 billion in the second quarter, according to LIMRA’s U.S. Individual Annuity Sales Survey, which represents 92% of the total U.S. annuity market. This tops the record set in the first half of 2024.
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A group of defendants are suing to stop a new administration rule that they say will make it harder to sign up for Obamacare coverage.

The Trump administration is appealing a ruling last month that blocked several parts of an Affordable Care Act exchange enrollment and eligibility rule.
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A Maryland judge blocked most of a Trump administration rule limiting the Affordable Care Act.

A Maryland judge blocked several parts of an Affordable Care Act exchange enrollment and eligibility rule on Friday, siding with a coalition of plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit.