Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

Most financial professionals pride themselves on knowing the full scope of what’s available to their clients. But for too many, life settlements remain a blind spot: misunderstood, mischaracterized, ...

Most people purchase a life insurance policy so their loved ones are taken care of when they die. But what if you wanted to cash in on that policy while you’re still alive, to pay for necessities now?

Every year, 500,000 older Americans lapse their life insurance policies, according to a survey by the Insurance Studies Institute. And millions each year will surrender their policies. Lisa Rehburg ...

The Law Offices of Jason Turchin, a national leader in life insurance litigation, has helped hundreds of families across the United States recover benefits from wrongfully denied life insurance claims ...

Most people purchase a life insurance policy so their loved ones are taken care of when they die. But what if you wanted to cash in on that policy while you’re still alive, to pay for necessities now?

At the end of October, former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Coventry First, one of the largest life-settlement firms in the U.S., for alleged bid-rigging and other types of fraud. Not ...

Rob Haynie is the Managing Director of Life Insurance Settlements, Inc. and is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LISA. Who has the potential to be the best educator when it comes to life ...

With changes to many tax laws looming at the end of the year, a life insurance settlement could provide an opportunity for clients to not only donate to a charity but also reap tax savings under ...