News articles about life insurance

Life Insurance plans to give ULIPs the miss
Business Standard - India
Barely six months after joining the unit-linked insurance product (ULIP) bandwagon, insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) finds itself ...
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Allmerica exits life insurance biz
MarketWatch - USA
Allmerica said it agreed to sell its variable life insurance and annuity business, Allmerica Financial Life Insurance and Annuity Company (AFLIAC), to ...
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Goldman Sachs to Acquire Allmerica's Variable Life Insurance and ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
22, 2005--The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has agreed to acquire the variable life insurance and variable annuity business of ...
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Japan insurance firms look to India, China
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
TOKYO - In search of higher returns, Japanese life and non-life insurance companies are planning to significantly expand their stock investments in China ...
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Underwrite life insurance premiums for Guardsmen
Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA
There is legislation on the table in Harrisburg that would have the state underwrite the cost of life insurance for active duty National Guard soldiers and ...
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Inviva's Jefferson National Makes Instant-Issue Term Life ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Jefferson National Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Inviva, Inc., continues making its instant-issue term life insurance easier for ...


North American Life Insurance Activity Off 3.9% in July
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
22 /PRNewswire/ -- North American application activity for individually underwritten life insurance declined -3.9% in July, year-over-year, according to the ...


Japanese life and non-life insurance companies are planning to ...
India Daily - Whitehouse Station,NJ,USA
... Taiyo Life Insurance Co. ... Domestic bonds account for roughly half of the securities investments at life and nonlife insurance firms. ...


Pacific Insurance eyes new investors
Xinhua - China
... China Life Insurance Co., Ping An Insurance and China Pacific, however, still dominate in an industry where premiums rose 11.3 percent in 2004 to 431.8 billion ...
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Ping an Insurance: First-Half Earnings Up
MSN Money - USA
... Core life insurance business accounted for 83 percent of first half net profit, with the rest coming from a diversified pool of businesses including non-life ...
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Life insurance riders: Evaluate your options
Sify - Taramani,Chennai,India
Life insurance products offer a lot of options nowadays. ... Simply put, riders are add-on benefits which can be bought alongwith a life insurance policy. ...

Girls Just Wanna Have... Life Insurance
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
By Rachel. Ok, so I tell a white lie, not all girls want to have life insurance, but more British women are taking the initiative and insuring themselves. ...

Niche Industry Grows In War-Torn Iraq
Hartford Courant - United States
... Peace is a distant dream, but Jabouri does have one kind of peace of mind: a terrorism life insurance policy. For about $35 a year ...

Election lawsuit expanded to include insurance companies
Houston Chronicle - United States
... added are AT&T Corp., Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co., Ace American Insurance Co., Aetna Inc., Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., United ...

Bulgaria life insurance market up 50% in H1
Dnevnik.bg - Bulgaria
Bulgarians are buying more life insurance coverage but sales still lag motor and property insurance in a roughly 1:7 ratio, shows data of Bulgaria's insurance ...
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Rendell urges Legislature to act on Guard life insurance
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... The letter was sent one day after The Associated Press reported that bills in the House and Senate to subsidize Guard life insurance were not approved before ...
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Australia's AXA Asia Pacific to establish life insurance jv in ...
Forbes - USA
... with Malaysia's Affin Holdings Bhd (AHB), and Tahan Insurance Malaysia Bhd, to establish a joint venture company to purchase the life insurance business of ...
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Pentagon Increases Death Gratuity, Life Insurance
Bethesda Journal - MD, USA
... Department announced a significant increase in the death gratuity for the survivors of service members killed in action and group life insurance coverage for ...

Life Insurance Industry To Grow By 20 Pct This Year
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- The life insurance industry in the country is expected to grow by 20 percent this year, president of the Malaysian Financial ...

Cancellations of Insurance Policies Surge
Korea Times - South Korea
... In the fiscal year 2004 that ended in March 2005, 23 life insurance companies, including 11 foreign insurers, put the number of cancelled or invalid insurance ...