Heath Ledger's ex-lawyer suing over $10M life insurance policy (The Pantagraph)
LOS ANGELES -- A former attorney for Heath Ledger is suing over a $10 million life insurance policy he claims has gone unpaid since the actor s death earlier this year. | Video

October Law Chases Life Insurance Ghouls (The Commercial Record)
One rather unsavory niche of the life insurance industry has spawned a strange spin-off job people who call up elderly policyholders to see if they re dead yet.

AIG will sell life insurance business to pay back federal loan (Asbury Park Press)
American International Group Inc., the insurer forced to peddle businesses to repay an $85 billion government loan, will sell its life insurance operations in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, South Asia and Japan.

Spike in life insurance CDS spreads said overdone (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
NEW YORK, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A sharp increase in the cost of insuring U.S. life insurance companies' debt against the risk of default is overdone as the major players are not facing any liquidity or solvency issues, research firm CreditSights said on Friday.