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US life insurance premiums hit record $17.5bn in 2025: LIMRA

23rd March 2026

LIMRA, the research and consulting organisation supporting the insurance and financial services sector, reported that US individual life insurance new annualised premium climbed past $17.5 billion in 2025, establishing a new industry high. According to LIMRA’s individual life insurance sales survey, total new premium increased 10% compared with the previous year, ... Read the full article

LIMRA reports 36% increase in US single-premium pension risk transfer premiums in Q3’24

13th December 2024

LIMRA, a global research and consulting organisation for the insurance and financial services industry, reports that the total US single-premium pension risk transfer (PRT) premium reached $14.2 billion in the third quarter. This represents a 36% increase compared to the same period last year. Year-to-date (YTD), the total single-premium PRT premium has ... Read the full article

Canadian life insurance new premium climbs to CAD 478m in Q3: LIMRA

25th November 2024

Total Canadian life insurance new annualised premium jumped 4% to (CAD) $478 million in the third quarter of 2024, according to LIMRA’s Retail Canadian Life Insurance Sales Survey. During Q3'24, policy count dropped 17%, which was largely due to term life sales declines. John Carroll, senior vice president and head of Life ... Read the full article

Pension de-risking surge as 93% of sponsors plan full liability divestment: MetLife

25th November 2024

LIMRA, a research and consulting organisation in the insurance and financial services industries, reports that pension risk transfer (PRT) transactions increased by 14% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Meanwhile, MetLife, a global provider of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programmes, reports in its ... Read the full article

Verisk & LIMRA partner to combat financial crimes in life insurance

8th June 2022

Global data analytics provider, Verisk has announced that it is partnering with LIMRA to deliver greater capabilities to insurers and recordkeepers, to help them combat fraud and financial criminal attacks on their customers. The partnership will expand Verisk’s extensive anti-fraud portfolio, which includes ClaimSearch, the world’s largest database of property and ... Read the full article