Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Evening Times)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

Have a Family History of Cancer? Get Life Insurance Now (Advocate Tribune)
(ARA) - When Steve Curtis, 44, a salesman from Evergreen, Colo., started shopping around for life insurance, he braced himself for some big numbers. "My mother died of cancer when she was in her late 40s, and I was expecting the insurance companies to hold that against me," he says.

New York Life Lets Lifetime Income Annuity Customers Capitalize on Potential Interest Rate Increases (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----July 24, 2006--New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation today announced the Income Enhancement Option, a new optional feature available for its Lifetime Income Annuity that gives policyholders the best of both worlds: the ability to secure guaranteed lifetime income and potentially benefit from higher interest rates in the future.