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Thursday, March 31, 2016

No. 153: Vermont's Frightening Accounting Rules and the Secrecy Surrounding Them

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Primerica Life Insurance Company is domiciled for regulatory purposes in Massachusetts and headquartered in Georgia. It is a wholly owned o...
Friday, March 25, 2016

No. 152: Captive Reinsurers—A Brief Released by the Office of Financial Research in the U.S. Department of the Treasury

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In No. 135 (posted December 28, 2015), I discussed the first Financial Stability Report issued by the Office of Financial Research (OFR), a...
Friday, March 18, 2016

No. 151: Life Partners—Trustee Moran Files 17 Adversary Proceedings in the Bankruptcy Case

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H. Thomas Moran II is the chapter 11 trustee in the Life Partners Holdings Inc. (LPHI) bankruptcy case. On March 5, 2016, as I reported in ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

No. 150: Life Partners—The Trustee's Report on Allegedly Fraudulent Business Conduct Preceding the Bankruptcy Filing

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Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (LPHI), led by controlling shareholder and chief executive officer Brian D. Pardo, participated for many years ...
Monday, March 14, 2016

No. 149: Phony Life Insurance Policies Cause Federal Criminal Charges against Five Defendants

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On December 16, 2014, the U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California (San Francisco) filed under seal a grand jury indictment aga...
Friday, March 11, 2016

No. 148: AIG's War against Coventry First and the Buerger Family Ends with a Confidential Peace Treaty

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In No. 67 (posted September 16, 2014), I wrote about a lawsuit that Lavastone Capital, an affiliate of American International Group (AIG), ...
Monday, March 7, 2016

No. 147: Medical Education of Resident Physicians—A Shocking Scandal Relating to a Pair of Clinical Trials

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Public Citizen is a public interest organization that Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe founded in 1971. For many years, Dr. Wolfe headed Hea...