November's improved employment numbers should be a pick-me-up for advisors, at least for those who believe they have skin in the game where job growth is concerned...
In an early indication of how one of the nation's largest life insurers plans to accelerate sales growth in the voluntary benefits space, MetLife said that it will sell voluntary and worksite products on 10 private health care exchanges next year...
The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) released its state of the industry report identifying opportunities ahead in 2014...
More than two-thirds of the estimated 46 million uninsured Americans still won't have health insurance at the end of Obamacare's first year of operation, according to forecasts by the 50 states...
In the face of continued economic, competitive and regulatory challenges, property-casualty insurers are seizing opportunities to improve underwriting discipline, drive operating efficiencies and leverage data and enhanced analytics to sustain growth...
The growth in so-called "consumer-driven" and high-deductible health plans continues, and now cover 28 percent of those with health insurance, according to the latest report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)...
Given that exchange technical glitches have produced insurance enrollment problems, some consumers may turn to the short-term insurance market to address temporary lapses in health insurance coverage despite new rules from the administration to minimize these lapses...
While private sector employees are absorbing more costs for their own health care, facing high deductibles and huge out-of-pocket cost increases in recent years, they are also bearing more as taxpayers by assuming a higher percentage of costs for employees who work in the public sector...
Amid growing consumer frustration and a series of embarrassing disclosures, MNsure Executive Director April Todd-Malmlov resigned from her post running the Minnesota health insurance exchange...
The federal official managing Obamacare's "navigators" told congressional investigators that "he had no indication" that the program's healthcare.gov website would not work when it launched on Oct. 1...
Holes in oversight and enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- or HIPAA -- need to be addressed, the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general has found...
Social Security is the federal government's largest single program. Of the 58 million people who currently receive Social Security benefits, about 70 percent are retired workers or their spouses and children, and another 11 percent are survivors of deceased workers...
Term life insurance, which comes with no cash value savings account, is the cheapest insurance with the largest death benefit...
An industry group said Texas homeowners no longer are paying the highest insurance rates in the country, a distinction that now goes to Florida residents...
UBS AG, the world's largest wealth manager, said clients are shifting money to be managed directly by the bank or pay for advice in a reversal of previous outflows after it revamped services to boost profitability...
