Your Money Or Your Life Assurance (The Motley Fool)
Fiona Nicolson looks at why many of us should take out life insurance.

Life insurance industry to offer 1st qualification test in Oct. (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ The Life Insurance Association of Japan will carry out the first examination in October under a qualification system it has devised to prevent a recurrence of massive nonpayment of legitimate insurance claims, the newly installed chairman of the industry association said Friday.

Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company Appoints Melville Vice President of Underwriting (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced today that Curt Melville has joined Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company in the new position of Vice President of Underwriting. Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EIHI.

Resona to sell shares to Dai-ichi Life (The Japan Times)
Resona Holdings Inc., Japan's fourth-largest banking group, said Friday that it will sell preferred shares to Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. and use the proceeds to repay funds received in a... Read more ...