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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, according to media reports.

While a recent study credits employers for helping improve workers’ financial health, financial advisors also can assist clients in this way.

With an increasing number of Americans needing care, states are looking at how they can mitigate these costs without any significant federal action.

The Trump administration’s plans for the financial services sector are taking shape key appointments are being announced.

Despite negative publicity, indexed life and annuity sales are doing quite well with consumers.

The insurance industry is at a crossroads, facing a talent crisis fueled by demographic shifts and technology.

While generative AI can give insurers an advantage over competitors, the way they use it also matters, says IBM.

Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage will cost consumers an average of 7% more for 2025 than it did last year. Meanwhile, there are questions about whether Congress will let enhanced premium subsidies expire next year.

Health care affordability and corrections to SECURE 2.0 are issues that have support from both parties.

Executives agreed during a risk appraisal forum at NAILBA 43 that future state-based regulations are sure to impact underwriting.

Representing 45% of U.S. annuity sales, record-high fixed indexed and registered index-linked annuity sales propelled the continued growth in the U.S. annuity market in the third quarter.

Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act are two health care issues most likely to be impacted in the new administration.

A small Mississippi life insurer offering the highest annuity rates in the 5-year MYGA market is drawing concerns over its financial condition.

The ease of creating convincing deepfake images and even videos is threatening to increase insurance fraud.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is using algorithms that “seem to go after good agents who are minority agents and, therefore their minority communities,” the CEO of a health insurance agents association told a National Association of Insurance Commissioners working group.

Prosecutors push back on a request by convicted fraudster Greg Lindberg to serve time in a halfway house near his home.

President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Financial advisory practices that incorporate comprehensive services, including a written financial plan, are more successful.

Don’t expect the Trump team to prod Congress to tackle the looming Social Security problem anytime soon. If at all.