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Monday, July 21, 2014

No. 59: The Proposed Demutualization of Canada's Economical Mutual Insurance Company

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Alastair ("Al") Rickard is a former Canadian insurance executive and the founding editor of The Canadian Journal of Life Insurance...
Monday, July 14, 2014

No. 57: A Note to Readers

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In the final two issues of The Insurance Forum —the November and December 2013 issues—I expressed the hope to keep in contact with readers t...
Monday, July 7, 2014

No. 56: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and a Superb New Book about a Famous 1971 Burglary

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On the night of March 8, 1971, more than a year before the break-in at the Watergate, eight civil rights and antiwar activists broke into an...
Monday, June 30, 2014

No. 55: Watergate—The Reissue of a Superb Book on the Subject

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August 9, 2014 is the 40th anniversary of the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate affair. In those days I fo...
Monday, June 23, 2014

No. 54: Daniel Carpenter and a Host of Criminal Allegations

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Daniel E. Carpenter (Simsbury, CT), attorney and businessman, was scheduled to report to a federal prison on Friday, June 20. His saga invol...
Monday, June 16, 2014

No. 53: Florida's Pasco County School District Rejects a Proposed Life Insurance Plan

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In Nos. 43 and 48 posted April 21 and May 12, I discussed a life insurance plan promoted to the Pasco County School District (Land O'Lak...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

No. 52: Massachusetts Mutual's Corporate Governance

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In June 2005, corporate governance at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company came to public attention when the board of directors f...