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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

No. 177: Annuities, Pensions, and the Theft of Benefit Payments

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The August 1980 issue of The Insurance Forum carried an article about unclaimed death benefits. However, the subject did not catch fire un...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

No. 176: Annuity Churning Leads to Federal Prison Time for an Agent

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On September 14, 2016, Gary Edward Hibbing, a former insurance agent, will report to a federal prison to begin serving a sentence for actio...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

No. 175: Long-Term Care Insurance—A Follow-Up and a Correction

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In No. 174 (posted August 11, 2016) I said I have long expressed the opinion that the problem of financing long-term care (LTC) cannot be s...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

No. 174: Long-Term Care Insurance—Another Nail in the Coffin

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For 25 years I have expressed the opinion that the financing of long-term care (LTC) is a problem that cannot be solved through the mechani...
Monday, August 1, 2016

No. 173: Health Insurance Megamergers and the U.S. Department of Justice

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On July 21, 2016, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed, in federal court, complaints asking the court to bl...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

No. 172: Herbalife, the Federal Trade Commission, and a Wake-up Call for Primerica

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Herbalife International of America, Inc. and its affiliates sell nutrition supplements and other products through a "multilevel market...
Monday, July 11, 2016

No. 171: Cost-of-Insurance Increases—Additional Secret Information from AXA Equitable Life Becomes Public

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In No. 143 (February 15, 2016) and No. 169 (June 28, 2016), I discussed a cost-of-insurance (COI) class action lawsuit that Brach Family Fo...