India's life insurance market set for boom: study (TODAYonline)
A couple at the Victoria Memorial monument in Kolkata. Wealthier, aging Indians will help transform the country's largely untapped life insurance market into one of the world's fastest growing over the next five years, a global consultancy says

Roughly Half of Adult Americans Would Rather Renew their Driver's License Than Assess their Life Insurance Needs (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Would you rather have a root canal or baby-sit sextuplets? If neither seems appealing, consider that many Americans would choose either scenario if it meant they could put off looking into their life insurance needs.

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-09-17 10:11 GMT: India's SBI Life Insurance rated 'AAA' on parental support - Crisil (Interactive Investor)
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Indian rating agency Crisil assigned an AAA' financial strength rating, with stable outlook, to SBI Life Insurance Co Ltd.