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Total new individual life annualized premiums improved 2 percent in the 2010 fourth quarter, for a 4 percent growth for the year, according to LIMRA's U.S. Individual Life Insurance Sales Survey.

More U.S. employees rely on their employer and health plan for medical and health information, according to a nationwide survey of employees conducted by the National Business Group on Health.

While we continue to squabble over Judge Vinson's now-weeks old ruling, life goes on.

... because readers apparently misunderstood or simply misread my blog from a couple of weeks ago. And I apologize for garbling, or otherwise irresponsibly delivering my message.

The workforce's youngest employees have taken a more proactive role in researching benefits that offer financial protection over the last two years, according to online studies by Harris Interactive on behalf of Unum.

The Department of Health and Human Services introduced new regulations that guarantee students enrolled in their college or university's health insurance would be covered under the consumer protections.

Once diagnosed with an illness, many patients do not have adequate disease management information, according to a MedTera study.

Fifty-four percent of men buying individual critical illness insurance policies in 2010 were younger than age 45 while 51 percent of women buyers were age 45 or older.