Insurers Push For Tighter Resale Rules (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
If you want to sell your life insurance, you may have to hurry.

BestWeek: Skewed Mortality Projections Grave Concern for Life Settlement Investors (wallstreet:online AG)
Institutions with millions of dollars at stake in the life insurance settlement industry have some

Life insurance ruling | Appeals court ruling on viaticals stands (The State)
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court declined Monday to rule on a case that tests whether states can regulate the sale of life insurance by policyholders to investors, a practice known as viatical or life settlements. Under viatical settlements, individuals sell their life-insurance policies for less than face value to third parties, including investors such as hedge funds, in order to realize an ...

Only 1 suicide bombing hit Israel so far this year (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
JERUSALEM It's the kind of milestone many Israelis, for fear of jinxing it, are reluctant to acknowledge: 2007 is on track to become the safest year in Israel since before the second Palestinian uprising more than seven years ago.