Latest Life Insurance Headlines

All the headlines from our Life Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.

India’s Life Insurance Corp. Files IPO Papers to Potentially Raise $8 Billion

Feb 14 2022 // State-run Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has filed draft papers with the market regulator to sell 5% of its shares to potentially raise nearly $8 billion, dwarfing the biggest IPO in Asia’s third-largest...

Life Insurance Corp. of India’s Embedded Value Set at More Than $66.8B: Gov’t Official

Feb 3 2022 // NEW DELHI – State-run Life Insurance Corp. of India’s (LIC) embedded value has been finalized at more than 5 trillion rupees ($66.82 billion), a government official who is overseeing what is expected to be the...

Now Safe Drivers Can Get a Break on Life Insurance

Jan 25 2022 // Under a program being offered by Boston-based life insurer John Hancock, safe drivers can earn reward points towards discounts on wellness products and their life insurance premiums.John Hancock Vitality program members...

Global Life Insurers Adapt Pandemic Risk Models After Unexpected Jump in Claims

Jan 13 2022 // A coronavirus pandemic which lasts five years, another pandemic in a decade, and ever more transmissible variants are among the scenarios life insurers are predicting after COVID-19 claims jumped more than expected in...

Life Insurance Corp. of India’s IPO Prospectus Could Be Filed in Final Week of January

Jan 11 2022 // Life Insurance Corporation of India could file a prospectus in the final week of January for what would be the nation’s biggest initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The state-run...

China’s Anti-Graft Watchdog Probes Chairman of China Life Insurance

Jan 10 2022 // SHANGHAI – China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has placed Wang Bin, the chairman of China Life Insurance Co. Ltd., under investigation, the bureau said on Saturday.Wang is “suspected...

Fortitude Re Forms Bermuda Multi-Line Reinsurer, Buys U.S. Life Insurer

Jan 7 2022 // Fortitude Re announced the formation of a Bermuda multi-line reinsurer and the acquisition of a U.S. life insurer.In addition, Fortitude Re’s subsidiary, Fortitude Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (FRL), Bermuda’s largest...

SiriusPoint Invests in Canadian Digital Life Insurer PolicyMe

Dec 29 2021 // SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based global specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced a strategic investment in PolicyMe Corp., a digital life insurance provider specializing in Canadian individual term life...

Goosehead Insurance to Enter Life Insurance Market with Ethos

Dec 8 2021 // Independent personal lines insurance agency, Goosehead Insurance Inc., has enter into the life insurance space through an alliance with insurtech Ethos Life (Ethos). The company announced today that through...

Allianz Becomes First Wholly Foreign-Owned Life Insurer in China

Nov 17 2021 // Allianz said on Wednesday that its Chinese life insurance business had received regulatory approval that will allow it to become the first wholly foreign-owned life insurer in China created from a joint venture.Many...

Murdaugh Charged With Taking Dead Housekeeper’s Life Insurance Settlement

Oct 15 2021 // Prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, already accused of swindling money from his law firm and for faking his own murder, has now been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late...

Life Insurance Sector at Risk if Bond Yields Rise Sharply: IMF

Oct 14 2021 // The life insurance industry is at risk if there is a sharp rise in bond yields, with an extreme situation potentially causing insurers to liquidate investments reaching $1 trillion in the United States and Europe, the...

India Plans to Let Foreign Investors Hold 20% Stake in Life Insurance Corp.’s IPO

Oct 8 2021 // India is considering a proposal for foreign investors to own as much as 20% in Life Insurance Corp., according to a person with knowledge of the matter, which would enable them to participate in the nation’s biggest...

Allstate Completes Sale of Life Insurance Company of New York

Oct 4 2021 // The Allstate Corp. moved closer to its complete exit from the life insurance and annuity business with the closing of the sale of its Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York to Wilton Re for approximately $400...

Debt-Laden China Evergrande Could Raise $600M by Selling Life Insurance Stake

Sep 27 2021 // Debt-laden China Evergrande Group may have another asset to sell in its scramble to raise cash: its fast-growing life insurance business.That’s according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Steven Lam, who says the...

Generali Agrees to Buy AXA’s Malaysian P/C and Life Insurance Units

Jun 22 2021 // MILAN/PARIS/KUALA LUMPUR – Italy’s top insurer Generali has agreed to buy AXA’s insurance assets in Malaysia and take full ownership of a joint-venture it runs in the country to strengthen its local...

Appalachian Underwriters Expands into Life Insurance Market with Fintech Ethos

Apr 21 2021 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) has partnered with life insurance provider Ethos to offer the coverage via the fintech’s online platform.Agents can now quote customers’ life insurance without medical...

AM Best Maintains Negative Outlook on UK Non-Life Insurance Market

Apr 9 2021 // AM Best is maintaining a negative market segment outlook on the United Kingdom non-life insurance segment, citing economic uncertainty as a key headwind for UK non-life insurers.In addition, COVID-19-related lockdown...

Australia’s Regulator Weighs Limits on Life Insurers’ Exposure to Offshore Reinsurance

Apr 8 2021 // Australia’s insurance regulator on Thursday proposed to limit the exposure of life insurers to offshore reinsurers, given its lack of oversight of foreign players.The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)...

AIA Group to Buy Life Insurance Business of Bank of East Asia

Mar 24 2021 // Hong Kong-based insurer AIA Group has entered into an agreement to buy the wholly-owned life insurance unit of Bank of East Asia (BEA) and has signed a 15-year distribution partnership with the lender for a total of about...