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Good News Long-Term Care Insurance Agents Should Be Sharing

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Jesse Slome

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Agents tired of the seemingly endless negative news that has plagued the long-term care insurance industry finally have some good news to share. Actually, two pieces of welcome news. Costs for long-term care insurance protection are down from the prior year. In some instances, costs are as much as 15 percent lower. Considering all the negative news focused on rising prices and their impact on consumers, especially older Americans, this is a bit of welcomed, good news. The data comes from the just released 2023 Long-Term Care Insurance Price Index…

Life insurance companies join pivoting move due to pandemic

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 G. Turner

This segment of the industry has found itself having to make important changes due to new trends. The global life insurance industry has experienced a sudden and substantial shift in its trends since 2020 due to the pandemic. As a new wave continues with an even more transmissible variant, insurers in this industry are experiencing notable claims increases, causing them to have to pivot just as businesses in many other industries have had to do. Claims in 2021 jumped much higher than expected based on predictions regarding COVID-19. The first…

California Supreme Court rules life insurance stoppage requires proper notice

September 7, 2021September 3, 2021 H. Cutner

Life Insurance Stoppage ruling California

This decision would restore policy premium payments to thousands of people across the state. The California Supreme Court has ruled that a life insurance grace period and other protections must be provided to consumers in the state before insurers are allowed to cut off coverage due to a missed payment. The ruling could restore life insurance payments to affected customers dating back to 2013. In 2013, the state governor at the time, Jerry Brown, signed a law that had passed without any opposition, ending the previous authority that life insurance…

Aging holocaust survivors file lawsuit over Nazi-era life insurance payouts

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Marc

Holocaust Survivors - Image of Auschwitz

Surviving beneficiaries have faced a decades-long battle for payments for their murdered relatives. Holocaust survivors have been battling with life insurance companies for years – and sometimes decades – to receive life insurance payouts from policies for which they were beneficiaries. Family members of people murdered by Nazis are seeking payment from the coverage they had on the victims. Holocaust survivors are running out of time in their efforts to recover insurance policies that Nazi-era companies refused to honor. According to the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA, the sum total of…

Philip Morris launches Reviti life insurance company with discounts for smokers who quit

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 Nordstrom

Reviti Life Insurance - Smoking - cigaretes, Ash tray

The tobacco giant has started its own insurer with special discounts for smokers working on cessation. Philip Morris International, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes, has just opened its own insurer called Reviti life insurance. Reviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Philip Morris that will begin selling life insurance in the UK. Though Reviti life insurance will start in the United Kingdom, the intention is to expand its sales into markets overseas as well. That said, what is interesting about this life insurance company owned by the tobacco giant…

Life insurance premiums can be calculated using your social media posts

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 Marc

Provided they are not discriminatory, life insurers can use customers’ posts to decide on pricing. The New York Department of Financial Services (N.Y.F.S.) has released new life insurance premiums calculation guidelines. These will allow insurers to use data collected from their customers’ social media posts to help calculate premiums. These regulations may soon move outside New York and into other states as well. The life insurance premiums guidelines indicate that insurers have the right to obtain and apply data gleaned from “non-traditional” sources as well. That said, if they do…

Canadian life insurance companies no longer equate marijuana use to “smoking”

July 6, 2018July 5, 2018 G. Turner

Changes to the country’s laws and social attitudes have brought about change in industry policy. Life insurance companies in Canada have traditionally labeled cannabis users as being “smokers.” However, a recent change in the country’s industry has changed this situation among many insurers. Smokers are typically penalized by life insurance companies and, until recently, that included pot users. The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association director of health and disability policy, Joan Weir, explained in a CBC report that many life insurance companies have stopped equating light marijuana use with…