http://www.lifehealthpro.com/?f=rss As the total news source for the life, health and financial services industry, National Underwriter Life & Health is uniquely positioned to provide agents and brokers with timely, insightful information. With the largest, most experienced team of editors in the industry, National Underwriter is able to identify, analyze and comment on the latest trends and events for their significance to the market every business day. Available in print, online and via e-newsletters, National Underwriter helps life and health agents navigate the specialty markets and sort through critical developments whenever and wherever they are in their day. Our mission is to provide today's top life and health agents with the information they need to make serious business decisions. en http://www.lifeandhealthinsurancenews.com/http://www.lifeandhealthinsurancenews.com/Style%20Library/Images/nul-logo-new.gif http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/health-tv-dr-jane-orient http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/health-tv-dr-jane-orient An AAPS leader gives her thoughts on strategies for fighting PPACA and bringing down health care prices. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:16:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-tooth-fairy-is-tracking-the-recession-the-atla http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-tooth-fairy-is-tracking-the-recession-the-atla According to the Original Tooth Fairy Poll, run by the Delta Dental Plans Association, the fetching price of a child's tooth fell by 42 cents, to $2.10 from $2.52, between 2010 and 2011. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:45:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-end-of-money-slate http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-end-of-money-slate A new book asks: Why do we need cash at all? Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:44:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/us-blocks-yakuza-godfather-from-its-markets-reuter http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/us-blocks-yakuza-godfather-from-its-markets-reuter The United States on Thursday moved to block seven international organized crime leaders from the country's financial markets, including a Japanese yakuza godfather and key members of a gang operating in four continents. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:43:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/how-buying-health-insurance-is-changing-benefitspr http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/how-buying-health-insurance-is-changing-benefitspr Whichever way the political winds blow, the employer sponsored health plan is going the way of the employer paid pension plan, and will be virtually nonexistent after the year 2014. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:42:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-end-of-wall-street-as-they-knew-it-new-york-ma http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/the-end-of-wall-street-as-they-knew-it-new-york-ma Among the many dislocations Wall Street has suffered since 2008, none may have been more destabilizing to employees than Morgan Stanley's announcement in January that it would cap cash bonuses at $125,000. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:39:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/annuity-advisors-are-you-asking-power-questions http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/annuity-advisors-are-you-asking-power-questions If advisors ask the right “power” questions, it can help them build relationships, win new business and influence others. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:33:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/new-york-curtails-the-use-of-retained-asset-accoun http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/new-york-curtails-the-use-of-retained-asset-accoun New York State has become the first state to require life insurers to pay beneficiaries of life insurance claims immediately, effectively prohibiting the use of retained asset accounts. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:08:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/swiss-re-lh-operating-income-down-nearly-43 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/swiss-re-lh-operating-income-down-nearly-43 Operating income in Life & Health was $464 million compared with $810 million the previous year. The nearly 43% drop was in response to financial market volatility and increased cost in Admin Re. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:51:00 -0500 http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/cts-leonardi-forges-first-ever-state-supervisory-p http://www.lifehealthpro.com/2012/02/24/cts-leonardi-forges-first-ever-state-supervisory-p Leonardi signs a first-of-its-kind agreement with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, allowing multinational (via a state) supervision of insurance companies through sharing of confidential company information. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:48:00 -0500