Latest Life Insurance Headlines

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

Trump Nominates Life Industry’s Workman to Replace Woodall on Financial Stability Panel

Dec 1 2017 // President Donald Trump wants Thomas E. Workman, an attorney and former life insurer trade group leader, to be the independent insurance industry’s voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for...

As Re/Insurers’ Results Are Hit, ‘Substantial’ Rate Hikes Expected: Swiss Re

Nov 22 2017 // Non-life re/insurers’ full-year underwriting results are likely to be severely impacted from the second half’s three hurricanes and earthquakes in Mexico, which will lead to rate hardening for non-life insurers...

Minnesota Settles with 13th Life Insurance Company Over Unpaid Claims

Nov 20 2017 // The Minnesota Commerce Department has reached a settlement agreement with a major life insurance company that owed money to Minnesotans for unpaid insurance policies, annuity contracts and retained asset accounts.The...

Georgia CPA Arrested for Falsifying Insurance Apps, Taking $11K in Benefits

Nov 16 2017 // A certified public accountant (CPA) in Georgia has been arrested and charged with insurance fraud by Special Fraud Investigators from the Georgia Department of Insurance (GADOI), according to a statement from Georgia...

Nippon Life Eyes Buying MassMutual Japan Unit for Bancassurance Sales: Sources

Oct 5 2017 // Japan’s biggest private-sector life insurer, Nippon Life Insurance Co., is in talks to buy a majority stake in the domestic unit of U.S.-based MassMutual Financial Group in an attempt to boost its bancassurance...

AIA Buys Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Life Insurance Business for A$3.8B

Sep 21 2017 // AIA Group Ltd. agreed to buy Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s life insurance business for A$3.8 billion (more than $3 billion), in its most ambitious foray beyond the Hong Kong-based company’s core markets in...

Indian Insurer ICICI Lombard Hopes to Raise $892 Million with IPO

Sep 8 2017 // ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co Ltd’s initial public offering of shares opening next week aims to raise up to 57 billion rupees ($892 million), the latest listing in what is expected to be a record-setting year...

Indian IPOs Headed for Record Year as Insurers Seek to Raise Funds

Aug 21 2017 // Indian initial public offerings are headed for a record year, as a rush of insurers seek to ride a rally in the local market and tap increasing investor demand for financial assets.At least four Indian insurers are aiming...

Virginia Man Gets Life Without Parole for Killing Son for Insurance

Aug 4 2017 // A Virginia man convicted of murdering his 15-month-old-son to collect on life insurance was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.Joaquin Rams of Manassas, Va., was convicted earlier this year in the 2012...

Beazley Launches Dublin-Based Insurer to Write Non-Life Insurance in EU

Jul 18 2017 // Specialist insurer Beazley has received authorization from the Central Bank of Ireland to convert its established Dublin-based reinsurance company into an insurance company permitted to transact business throughout the...

China Regulators End Insurer Deal Spree, Favoring Risk Managers, over Risk Makers

Jul 14 2017 // The revolution in China’s insurance industry that helped unleash about $80 billion of acquisitions started with a whimper and ended with a bang.With little fanfare, China’s top insurance official, Xiang Junbo,...

Generali to Sell $50B German Life Business to Restructure in Europe: Sources

Jul 13 2017 // Generali has put its 44 billion euro ($50 billion) German life insurance portfolio up for sale as it restructures in Europe, sources close to the matter said.Morgan Stanley is evaluating options, including a sale, for...

Indy 500 Drivers Race Past Talk of Their Insurance, Says Agent

May 18 2017 // At least half of the Indianapolis 500 field will share more than steely nerves and a love of speed. They have the same agent for insurance, including some policies they’d rather not contemplate.Life insurance....

Bush Beats Trump! And Other Insurance Political Giving News

Apr 25 2017 // Monumental views on insurance and risk in the nation’s capital? Surely we jest. Well, we will take an occasional dip into the Potomac waters to poke fun, but overall we hope this reporting on insurance and risk as...

UK’s Aviva Buys Remaining 50% Share in Vietnam Joint Venture

Apr 24 2017 // Aviva plc has acquired VietinBank’s entire 50 percent shareholding in its life insurance joint venture VietinBank Aviva Life Insurance Ltd.Aviva also has signed a new distribution agreement with VietinBank to sell...

Global Insurance Industry Set to Grow by 4.5% in 2017-2018: Munich Re

Apr 21 2017 // The global insurance industry is set to grow more strongly at 4.5 percent per annum on average (3.0 percent in real terms, or adjusted for inflation) during 2017 and 2018, according to Munich Re.While premium income is...

China’s Probe of Regulatory Chief Won’t Slow Insurers’ Overseas M&A: Opinion

Apr 11 2017 // Xiang Junbo, the man on whose watch China’s insurance industry flourished, is now himself under investigation. As Bloomberg News reported over the weekend, China’s anti-graft agency is probing the...

Trial Concludes for Virginia Man Accused of Killing Son for Insurance

Apr 10 2017 // Joaquin Rams is either a father unjustly accused in the tragic, unexplained death of his 1-year-old son, or he is the most cold-blooded of murderers who snuffed the life from his boy to collect half a million dollars in...

Citigroup to Seek Bancassurance Distribution Partners in APAC Region: Source

Mar 28 2017 // Citigroup Inc. will seek bids from global insurers keen to sell general insurance products across the U.S. bank’s Asia-Pacific markets, in a deal that could be worth at least $500 million, a source with knowledge of...

Half of Global Insurance Premium Growth Tied to China: Allianz Research

Mar 21 2017 // Allianz Research projections show that total global premium income rose to a new record high of 3,650 billion euros ($3.9224 billion U.S. dollars) last year (excluding health insurance).In a year-on-year comparison, the...