On Aug. 28, 2011, Brent Mondel learned firsthand how brutal a natural disaster can be when Hurricane Irene left her home and life in shambles. After tearing a path through the Caribbean, Irene came ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. For decades, life insurance sales in the United States have been declining, with fewer ...

NEW YORK – Among the lessons to be learned from Hurricane Katrina is that more Americans need to consider buying flood insurance. The storm, which struck Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama late last ...

I’ve served as either a consulting or testifying expert witness in more than 20 cases involving life insurance. They weren’t about death claims but rather disputes alleging civil fraud related to life ...

It turns out that was really a bad thing, at least the type of mail that I received on my first day at my new job. I had been hired as part of a leadership team working to get the Pac Advantage small ...

How much life insurance do you really need? Insurance salespeople can come up with endless reasons why you should buy life policies, but there are only three sensible uses: * To replace a family”s ...

A devastating house fire taught one financial expert a hard lesson about insurance: having a policy is not the same as being prepared. In a Forbes column, Parere Advisory founder Janet Arzt wrote that ...

Do you remember the last time there was an open season for the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program? It was September 2004. And do you remember that any changes made at that time didn't take ...