Empire Life Launches New Mobile App-SimpleQuote(TM)
KINGSTON, ONTARIO-- - The Empire Life Insurance Company has launched a new iPad application that will provide simple, fast quotes on up to four term insurance products at once.SimpleQuote™ provides instant ...

Canada's Manulife profit tops estimates, hires CFO
TORONTO (Reuters) - Manulife Financial profit unexpectedly rose 22 percent in the first quarter on market-related gains and insurance sales, and the company said it had hired a new chief financial officer to replace the soon-to-depart Michael Bell. Canada's largest insurer earned C$1.2 billion ($1.21 billion), or 66 Canadian cents a share, in the quarter. Analysts had expected it to earn 36 ...

Annual Eastbridge Study Finds Life Insurance Sales Had an Increase for the Third Straight Year in 2011.
Total 2011 voluntary sales for all products was $5.478 billion , according to Eastbridge’s annual U.S. Worksite/Voluntary Sales Report.

Insane wife murderer can have her life insurance, judge rules
A man judged to be insane when he battered his wife with a marble Hindu statue and repeatedly stabbed her can have her death benefit life insurance, an Ontario Court of Appeal judge ruled.

Sun Life profit beats, while Industrial Alliance sags
TORONTO (Reuters) - Strong markets pushed Sun Life Financial Inc profit up 56 percent in the first quarter, topping analysts' estimates and driving Sun Life shares higher, while smaller rival Industrial Alliance sold off after disappointing results. Sun Life, Canada's No. 3 insurer, earned C$1.22 per share on a operating basis, well ahead of analysts' expectations of a profit of 75 Canadian ...