When I ended publication of The Insurance Forum at the end of 2013, I said one reason was my desire to write a memoir about my 40-year experiment in insurance journalism. The 379-page cloth bound book, entitled The Insurance Forum: A Memoir, is now available.
The book has five appendixes, a glossary, and an index. The book also has a foreword by Professors Travis Pritchett of the University of South Carolina, Joan Schmit of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Harold Skipper of Georgia State University. They call the book "an immensely enjoyable memoir" and "a compelling 'must read' for industry insiders, insurance regulators, reporters, lawmakers, and any others considering insurance issues."
My thanks to those who supported the Forum over the years. I am also grateful to those who submitted ideas and articles.
Information about how to obtain the book may be found at our website (www.theinsuranceforum.com). Here are the chapter titles:
The book has five appendixes, a glossary, and an index. The book also has a foreword by Professors Travis Pritchett of the University of South Carolina, Joan Schmit of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Harold Skipper of Georgia State University. They call the book "an immensely enjoyable memoir" and "a compelling 'must read' for industry insiders, insurance regulators, reporters, lawmakers, and any others considering insurance issues."
My thanks to those who supported the Forum over the years. I am also grateful to those who submitted ideas and articles.
Information about how to obtain the book may be found at our website (www.theinsuranceforum.com). Here are the chapter titles:
- Introduction
- The Pre-Indiana Years: 1929-1962
- The Indiana Years: 1962-2015
- The Policy Replacement Problem
- The A. L. Williams Replacement Empire
- Life Insurance Prices and Rates of Return
- The Collapse of Executive Life
- Fractional (Modal) Premium Charges
- The Secondary Market for Life Insurance
- Universal Life Insurance
- The Military-Insurance Interlock
- Distortion of Important Policy Provisions
- Deceptive Sales Practices
- Professional Codes of Ethics
- Credit Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- The Annuity Business
- The Secondary Markets for Annuities
- Charitable Gift Annuities
- Financial Strength Ratings
- Transfers of Policies between Companies
- Compensation of Insurance Executives
- Surplus Notes
- The Demutualization Wave
- Life Insurance Policy Dividends
- Agents' Contracts with Insurance Companies
- The Insurance Regulators
- The Insurance Regulatory Information System
- Risk-Based Capital
- Conclusion
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