insurance policy

• Young Americans lack financial knowledge

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  March 6, 2013

  Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t have fundamental financial knowledge, according to a new survey.

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  Panel questions value of calcium, vitamin D pills

  By Lauran Neergaard  |  February 26, 2013

  Popping calcium and vitamin D pills in hopes of strong bones? Healthy older women shouldn't bother with relatively low-dose dietary supplements, say new recommendations from a government advisory group.

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  Small business lessons from Lincoln

  By Donato Monaco  |  February 26, 2013

  Two hundred and four years after Abraham Lincoln’s birth, our country’s 16th president seems more popular than ever.

• Women, single parents face big gaps in life insurance coverage

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  December 28, 2012

  Genworth's research finds some serious holes in life insurance saturation, posing some additional retirement security issues for unmarried parents.

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  Multivitamins may lower cancer risk in men

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  October 17, 2012

  America's favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doctors who took them for more than a decade, the first large study to test these pills has found.

• Skip the middle man

  By Ingrid Case  |  October 1, 2012

  West Coast companies and their workers are trying a new benefit: direct primary care

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  Concierge care for the masses

  By Ingrid Case  |  August 31, 2012

  Under a traditional health care benefit plan, a patient tells the doctor what’s wrong. Then the patient, insurance company, or self-funded employer pays the doctor for each of the things she does in trying to fix it.

• John Hancock offers new long-term care insurance option

  By Noah Guillaume  |  August 17, 2012

  The Benefit Builder option is an alternative to a traditional inflation option with automatic increases in benefits occurring gradually over time.

• UK DB pension plans saw increased July deficit

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  August 6, 2012

  U.S. defined benefit pensions were not the only ones suffering in July, the United Kingdom's pension deficits also rose.

• Aflac launches group hospital indemnity plan in New York

  By Noah Guillaume  |  July 30, 2012

  Employers in the state of New York now have access to Aflac ‘s group Hospital Indemnity insurance plan.