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Monday, November 25, 2013

No. 10: The Danger of Announcing Dividend Interest Rates

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I have expressed the opinion that announcing dividend interest rates associated with traditional participating life insurance policies is a ...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

No. 9: The Unsealing of Some Phoenix Court Documents

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I have written extensively about cost-of-insurance (COI) increases that subsidiaries of Phoenix Companies, Inc. imposed on owners of univers...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

No. 8: More on the Reversal of the Neasham Conviction

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In No. 6, I discussed the reversal of the conviction of Glenn Neasham, a California agent who sold an Allianz annuity to Fran Schuber in 200...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

No. 7: John Grisham Strikes Again

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John Grisham, one of our most popular novelists, has done it again. His latest book is Sycamore Row (Doubleday, 2013). It is set in 1988 in...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

No. 6: Reversal of the Neasham Conviction and Some Lessons To Be Learned from the Case

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I devoted the entire eight-page June 2012 issue of The Insurance Forum to the conviction of Glenn Neasham, a California agent who sold an a...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

No. 5: The Conviction of Three STOLI Promoters on Federal Criminal Charges

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In the May 2012 and April 2013 issues of The Insurance Forum , I discussed the federal criminal charges filed against three promoters of str...
Monday, October 21, 2013

No. 4: Metlife's Incomplete Explanation about Runs

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Steven A. Kandarian is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET). On August 1, 2013, during the firm'...