Iowa Companies Combine Efforts to Offer Life Insurance Coverage as Part of Annual Employee Benefits Enrollment Period
Three Iowa-based companies have partnered to make purchasing life insurance more efficient and more readily available to consumers. ...

Milliman Releases Comprehensive Study of Life Insurance Industry Mortality and Lapse Experience Results
Milliman has completed one of the largest and most comprehensive life insurance mortality and lapse studies ever undertaken. The study is called MIMSA and covers the United States individual life insurance business of 29 companies. MIMSA contains $27.8 trillion of exposure for mortality and 1.6 million deaths over study years 2000-2009. It also contains $26.8 trillion of exposure for lapse ...

Nigeria: 'Micro-Insurance is Backbone of Life Business'
The management of African Alliance Insurance Company Limited, one of the oldest life offices in the country, has said that micro-insurance will remain the backbone of life insurance business in the country now and in the future.

Nigeria: GTAssur Pays N407 Million Claims in Six Months
Guaranty Trust Assurance plc (GTAssur) paid N407 million claims from life insurance business to its policyholders between January and June 2011 in keeping faith with its promise to pay all genuine claims promptly.