USAA, Westfield and State Farm are the best high-value home insurance companies, according to our analysis.High-value home ...

Universal Insurance Holdings remains operationally resilient, with disciplined underwriting, prudent risk diversification, and a strong balance sheet supporting performance. Revenue growth has slowed, ...

Permanent life insurance policies generally grow cash value that you can borrow from or withdraw for any reason. The way the cash value grows depends on the type of life insurance policy. The cash ...

Succession planning for closely held business owners has always carried estate tax risks, but the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in Connelly v. United States has made those risks more costly (to the ...

A recent case demonstrates the impact that a stock-purchase agreement and life insurance can have (or not have) on the valuation of a closely held company for estate tax purposes. Before diving into ...

Life insurance has long been considered a hard to value asset. Practitioners and planners have dealt with a variety of definitions of fair market value (FMV), depending on the particular application ...

The biggest victim of erroneous ‘actual cash value’ estimates is often the GAP Provider, but VVA’s Valuation Tools make it possible to end the wrongful transfer of liability to the GAP Provider.” — ...