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INSURANCENEWSNET MAGAZINE
In this issue...
- Risk-control index innovation grows as regulators scrutinize complexity
- Keeping it simple — With Tom Bumbolow
- Nationwide marks 100 years as a modern mutual
- A Partner on Life’s Financial Journey with Leah West
- Harnessing, cultivating and profiting from centers of influence
- A perfect storm demands better planning
SPECIAL FEATURE
Death and taxes: How the right analysis for life insurance changes the picture
The question is not whether your client should own life insurance. The question is whether their family wealth can survive... Read More
From The Field
Navigating GenAI risk in insurance
GenAI can improve efficiency across the insurance industry but it also introduces risks that insurers must understand and manage.
Risk transfer has become compliance theater
What contractual risk transfer looks like.
Could a narrower focus help grow your practice?
A strong niche brings together the right audience and opportunity with your expertise and experience.
ADVISOR NEWS
I started using AI, but what now?
As generative AI expands across personal and professional use, financial advisors are finding new ways to integrate digital tools to streamline their practice.
- U.S. debt hits $40 trillion: how to support concerned clients
- Flourish brings private-bank-like cash solution to MassMutual’s network
- Majority of Americans concerned recent market highs are unsustainable
- GLP-1 users choose between medication and retirement saving
- Gen X and millennials seek new retirement model
NEWSWIRES
It's 5 a.m. at a Princeton Fitness Center – What Do You Say to the Early Arrivals?
Princeton, NJ— I have an unusual mental health insurance policy. Cathy is the morning front desk membership services representative at my gym— Princeton Fitness and Wellness. She greets me and dozens of others every morning from 5 to 9 a.m. and provides a service as an angst catcher, services akin to that of a bartender.
- Goodwin giving Patrick a race for lieutenant governor Outspent and unknown, Democrat Vikki Goodwin gives Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick his toughest race yet
- Golf cart fire sparks lawsuit
- Your questions answered on Medicare open enrollment
- Terry Savage: Questions answered on open enrollment
- New Jersey residents will see Affordable Care Act premiums jump 20% on average for 2027 health insurance
Annuity News
Insurer proposes $1.1M deal to resolve CA teachers’ annuity fee lawsuit
California public-school employees are accepting a $1.1 million settlement over what they claim are improper annuity rider fees. Read More
Life Insurance News
777 Partners founder pleads guilty to $500 million fraud scheme
The case involves allegedly falsified financial records, assets pledged to multiple lenders and a separate SEC action over inve... Read More
How life insurance can solve problems unique to HNW clients
Many high net worth individuals think they don't need life insurance because they have enough assets to cover their financial o... Read More
BILTIR conference draws more than 750 insurance leaders to Bermuda
Industry leaders and regulators discussed retirement security, emerging technologies and the evolving relationship between U.S.... Read More
Health/Employee Benefits News
Health insurance hits municipal budgets, taxpayers hard
SCHENECTADY- Though each municipality has its own problems to battle this budget season, health insurance consistently gets the... Read More
Minnesota seniors face tough choices for health plans
Daren Wysocki received a letter last week from Eagan- based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Wysocki, 68, lives outside Dee... Read More
Recent Findings from New York University (NYU) Langone Health Provide New Insights into Managed Care (State Medicaid Body Mass Index Requirements for Solid Organ Transplant Coverage: A 50-State Policy Review): Managed Care
2026 OCT 16-- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care... Read More
Property and Casualty News
The credit score your insurer uses isn't your FICO
Your credit score is an important metric that lenders and credit cards use to determine if you qualify for financing. While tha... Read More
Moody’s: Hurricane Isaias to cost insurers an estimated $3.5 billion
Hurricane Isaias will cost insurers between $2.5 billion and $4.5 billion, with a best estimate of $3.5 billion, according to... Read More
Connecticut Insurance Department highlights auto and home insurance rate decreases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Oct. 16, 2026 A review by the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) found personal auto and homeowners... Read More
Insurtech News
Customers say Old National Bank failed to protect from fraud
A second Minnesota business owner in five weeks has sued Old National Bank, saying it should have but failed to halt an advance... Read More
What AI transformation really means for insurance jobs and skills
As advances in artificial intelligence create new roles in the insurance industry and transform more traditional ones, industry... Read More
Experts say data is golden, but only if insurers know how to leverage it
When it comes to competing in the insurance market in an age of AI, data may be “golden” but the action insurers take with that... Read More
