Voluntary Benefits

In the small world of big CEOs, the perks can be spectacular.

Barbara Saxton presents a round table discussion on the opportunities that exist in todays world for leveraging voluntary sales.

According to a Deloitte survey, one of the main reasons why non-buyers don't go ahead and purchase a life insurance policy is because no one has offered it to them.

The benefits landscape is evolving, especially in the voluntary arena. Voluntary benefits are no longer a nice to have; now they are a must-have.

MetLife announced Wednesday that four of its life insurance subsidiaries approved an aggregate payment amount of approximately $1.36 billion in policy dividend payments to eligible life insurance policyholders for 2012.

Insurers doing business in New York are now required to regularly search a government list of recent deaths to identify policyholders, then find and pay beneficiaries even when no claims are made.