(Editor's Note: See this story for the latest update.) Despite some signs that excess mortality rates are declining, life insurance executives and actuaries believe the numbers are alarming and could ...

COVID-19 might seem like a distant memory but for life insurance executives unexpectedly high mortality rates remain a stubborn reminder. And it’s starting to look like it might not correct itself ...

Individual U.S life insurance application activity increased by 3.4% in 2021, following a record-breaking year-over-year growth of 3.9% in 2020. The industry is still wrestling with mortality ...

Insurance status is known to be associated with health care access and outcomes, and a recent study found that maternal private insurance is associated with a lower infant mortality rate compared with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The average percentage of patients with commercial insurance at U.S. dialysis centers was 4.4%. Each 10% ...

Having applied securitization to its vehicle insurance book last year via the innovative FCC Sparc deal, AXA now plans to offload mortality risk to the capital markets via a synthetic securitization ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Uninsured near-elderly people may be particularly at risk for adverse health outcomes. We compared mortality of a nationally representative cohort of insured and uninsured near-elderly people with ...