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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
After Booting 760K People From ACA Plans, Trump Administration Has Added Some Back
But not all of those kicked off were fraudulently enrolled, KFF Health News has learned. Still, the sweep was long overdue, say supporters such as Brian Blase, whose Paragon Health Institute has supplied many of the sometimes controversial findings cited by those who allege widespread enrollment fraud in the ACA. Insurers must let CMS know how many of those…
- Minnesota seniors face tough choices for health plans
- 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
- The most expensive states to own a car
- After booting 760K off ACA health plans, the Trump administration adds some people back
- New Findings from University of Hawaii at Manoa in the Area of Science Reported (Expanded Medi-Cal Coverage and Persisting Access Barriers for Latino Immigrants in California): Science
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
What’s shaping retirement readiness in healthcare?
Rising healthcare costs, everyday financial pressures and evolving employee expectations are prompting healthcare employers to ... Read More
State offers special enrollment period for 9,300 Illinoisans who lost Medicaid coverage
The impacted group will no longer be eligible to receive premium tax credits on Jan. 1, 2027, as a result of federal legislatio... Read More
Consequences of Expired Health Insurance Tax Credits; Hidden Healthcare Cuts on the Horizon
On January 8, 2026, 16 House Republicans joined the Democrats in voting for a three-year extension of the Enhanced Health Insur... Read More
Property and Casualty News
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
Outspent and unknown, Democrat Vikki Goodwin gives Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick his toughest race yet
By 6 p.m. on a recent Monday, Vikki Goodwin had sat through a five-hour Texas House insurance committee hearing, worked the pho... 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
