Millennials are inheriting billions and they want to know what to do with it
INSURANCENEWSNET MAGAZINE
In this issue...
- What’s next for Congress in 2026?
- Relationships: The foundation of sales
- The first of everything — with Uziel Gomez
- Keeping it simple — With Bill Egan
- Using cash value life insurance as a buffer asset in retirement
- The silent retirement savings killer: Bridging the Medicare gap
SPECIAL FEATURE
How to elevate annuity discussions during tax season
Tax season creates a rare opportunity for engagement, making it the ideal moment to connect tax awareness with long-term income... Read More
From The Field
What Trump Accounts reveal about time and long-term wealth
Trump Accounts aren’t the only savings vehicles for children, but they are unique.
How gamification helps insurers engage and educate younger homeowners
How can we make insurance feel less like a chore and more like a conversation?
Reimagining life insurance to close the coverage gap
Repositioning life insurance from a protection product to a wellness benefit is a win for both carriers and consumers.
ADVISOR NEWS
Wellmark still worries over lowered projections of Iowa tax hike
A proposal to temporarily increase a state tax on health insurance premiums to help cover a $1 billion shortfall in the state budget will impact Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer, much less than the company originally feared, Wellmark officials and state administration leaders said Thursday. Kim Reynolds'…
- Wellmark still worries over lowered projections of Iowa tax hike
- Geopolitical instability and risk raise fears of Black Swan scenarios
- Structured Note Investors Recover $1.28M FINRA Award Against Fidelity
- Market reports turn economic trends into a strategic edge for advisors
- SEC in ‘active and detailed’ settlement talks with accused scammer Tai Lopez
NEWSWIRES
Elysian Selected for Lloyd’s Lab Cohort 16 to Advance AI-Native Claims Auditing for the Global Specialty Market
Twenty companies were shortlisted to present at a Pitch Day at Lloyd’s of London on March 4, and Elysian was one of twelve ultimately selected to join the cohort. The Lloyd’s Lab accelerator pairs selected companies with Lloyd’s managing agents, brokers, and Corporation specialists over a ten-week program to test, refine, and scale solutions for the specialty…
- New Generation MyCare Program – What is it?
- The Strait of Hormuz, key to the markets: rising energy prices and fears of inflation
- The conflict in Iran freezes the mortgage war and threatens to make home loans more expensive
- Best’s Special Report: Catastrophe Bond Market Growth Accelerates, As Loss Multipliers Compress
- Visitor Guard® Rolls Out 2026 FIFA World Cup Travel Insurance for Fans Visiting the USA, Canada, and Mexico
Annuity News
How to elevate annuity discussions during tax season
Tax season creates a rare opportunity for engagement, making it the ideal moment to connect tax awareness with long-term income... Read More
Life Insurance News
LIMRA: Individual life insurance new premium sets 2025 sales record
Total new annualized premium increased 10% year over year to $17.5 billion in 2025, according to preliminary results from LIMRA... Read More
How AI can drive and bridge the insurance skills gap
Artificial intelligence presents an opportunity to bridge a skills gap between older, more tenured insurance professionals and ... Read More
Kyle Busch, PacLife reach confidential settlement, seek to dismiss lawsuit
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his wife, Samantha Busch, have reached a confidential settlement with PacLife and two other defend... Read More
Health/Employee Benefits News
Local lawmakers, advocates talk about BadgerCare expansion
EAU CLAIRE— Local lawmakers are discussing bringing legislation which would expand access to BadgerCare, the state-run health i... Read More
Families defend disability services amid health cuts
Concerns for such care arose when Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, proposed cutting $22 million from Medicaid- the joint s... Read More
RANDALL LEADS 43 DEMOCRATS IN DEMANDING ANSWERS FROM OPM OVER DECISION TO ELIMINATE COVERAGE FOR MEDICALLY NECESSARY TRANS HEALTH CARE
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, Congresswoman Emily Randall, co-chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, led a letter alongside 43 D... Read More
How the Abortion Rights Activists Found Their Radical Imagination
A long-shot campaign to restore public funding for abortion turned into the movement’s biggest success in a generation. Reprodu... Read More
Crypto industry quietly powers negative campaign ads in Illinois
Political attack ads are taking on a different energy this primary cycle, thanks to big bucks from national super PACs backing ... Read More
Here’s how much Californian families spend on health care
Data: Commonwealth Fund; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Health insurance costs ate up 11% of median family income in California in 20... Read More
Property and Casualty News
Medical malpractice success a win, but more needed
The passage of medical malpractice reform is the most important public policy success in New Mexico in more than a decade. In a... Read More
Going Places: Global Insecurity Heightens Need for Emergency Plan, Travel Insurance
Some 500,000 to 1 million U.S. nationals were living in or visiting the Middle East when the US and Israel launched its attack ... Read More
New Mexico governor signs major medical malpractice bill into law
A medical malpractice reform that was years in the making is now the law of the land in New Mexico. “This, in fact, was a healt... Read More
Insurance & Financial Fraud
Advisor convicted of defrauding NBA players through viatical life sales
A California investment adviser was convicted of defrauding three former NBA players out of more than $5 million, federal prose... Read More
