Insurance deals boost 2010 M&A activity CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The pace of mergers and acquisitions is gaining speed in 2010 thanks to American International Group Inc. MetLife Inc.'s $15.5 billion deal Monday to buy AIG's American Life Insurance ... [full story]

MUNICH, Germany, Feb 25, 2010 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) (Insurance News) -- Allianz S.E. reported a surge in life and health insurance income for 2009, enough to overcome a drop in property and casualty earnings to give the multiline ... [full story]

For the sixth year in a row, New York Life Insurance Company awarded scholarships to full time undergraduate students who are majoring in business, achieve academic success with a GPA of 3.0 or higher and play an active role in ... [full story]

Old Mutual Plc has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. to consider a sale of its U.S. life insurance business and has found several possible buyers, the Financial Times said, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation. Unrealized losses at ... [full story]

While many companies have cut back on business travel, competition remains strong in the U.S. corporate travel insurance market, experts say. The products and services available to buyers of business travel coverage are innovative and, most importantly, help safeguard the employee, ... [full story]

More Americans are turning to the Internet for information about life insurance, according to a new study. Reston, Va.-based comScore, a digital marketing firm, found that searches for life insurance information grew to 16.6 million queries in 2009, an ... [full story]

Anyone with a life insurance policy they haven’t carefully read will want to do so ASAP after they learn about one widow’s unsuccessful fight with her dead husband’s life insurer. It all started when Craig Bauer, an executive at manufacturer Omron ... [full story]

NEW YORK -- "American International Group Inc. reportedly is in discussions to sell one of its largest life insurance units to MetLife Inc., a move that would represent its biggest divestiture since its 2008 bailout. The sale would send one of ... [full story]

What is so good about internet life insurance leads? Why are more and more agents talking about these? If you don’t know the answer to these questions you need to continue to read. When it comes down to it, agents ... [full story]

The sudden death of the “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, leaves behind some uncertainty in the insurance world regarding coverage for his scheduled 50 live performances at London’s O2 Arena. Bart Nash, chief press officer, Lloyd’s C for Lloyd’s of London, ... [full story]