by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 31, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Life Insurance, news
Integrity Marketing Group, a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, announced it has partnered with New Benefits & Financial Services, an independent marketing organization... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 25, 2024 | Insurance Industry, news
For the second consecutive year, rising interest rates pushed annuity sales to another all-time record high, according to preliminary results from LIMRA’s U.S. Individual Annuity Sales Survey. Powered by unprecedented fixed annuity sales, total annuity sales topped... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 25, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, news
Elevance Health (formerly Anthem, Inc.) released 4th quarter 2023 financials on January 24th, reporting a decrease of 5,000 Medicare Supplement lives in the 4th quarter and a decrease of 24,000 Medicare Supplement lives over the past 12 months. The Elevance Health... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 23, 2024 | Insurance Industry, news
Integrity Marketing Group, a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, announced it has partnered with International Financial Group, an independent marketing organization based in Las Vegas,... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 22, 2024 | Accident, Critical Illness, Dental, Insurance Industry, Short-Term Care
Debates about Medicare Advantage marketing and payments are ongoing, there’s rampant speculation about acquisitions in the healthcare space, and predictions about changes coming in 2024 abound. In 2023, Telos Actuarial wrote about Supplemental Health products and... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 18, 2024 | Insurance Industry, news
illumifin, a leading third-party insurance administration and technology provider, announced it has acquired Administrative Partners of America (APA), the Third-Party Administrator (TPA) of AmeriLife, a national leader in developing, marketing, and distributing life... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 18, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Life Insurance, news
Application activity for U.S. life insurance grew at a near 3% rate in 2023 compared to the previous year showing the first uptick in almost four years, according to the MIB Group, a member-owned company that provides underwriting services to life and health insurance... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 18, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Life Insurance, news
Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced the company-wide launch of Legacy Safeguard® and its Postseason Game Plan system... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 15, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, news
Medicare Supplement market leader United Healthcare (UHC) released 4th quarter 2023 financials on January 12th, reporting a 10,000 increase in Medicare Supplement lives in the 4th quarter. The UHC enrollment table below features Standardized and Modernized policy... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 11, 2024 | Insurance Industry, news
Elevance Health is acquiring Paragon Healthcare, a Plano, Texas-based company specializing in infusible and injectable drug therapies. Paragon Healthcare patients will receive medical and pharmacy benefits from Elevance Health subsidiaries and operate within... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 11, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Medicare
A record 20.4 million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans since open enrollment began in November. Sign-ups are expected to continue to grow. A record 20.4 million Americans have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans since open enrollment began in... read more
by Carrie Haubensak | Jan 11, 2024 | Insurance Industry, Life Insurance
Shoppers kept U.S. individual life insurance underwriting systems busy in December. Overall application activity was 6.5% higher last month than in December 2022, and it was up by at least 8% for three of the age groups that MIB Group tracks, according to new MIB... read more
