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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

No. 219: Cost-of-Insurance Increases, Aetna, Lincoln, Voya, and the New York State Department of Financial Services—An Update

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In No. 214 (posted April 20, 2017), I reported that, in August 2016, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (Lincoln) sent letters ...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

No. 218: Massachusetts Mutual's Dividends and the Proposed Settlement of a Class Action Lawsuit

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On July 12, 2012, Karen Bacchi, a Massachusetts resident, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against Massachusetts Mutual Life I...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

No. 217: Penn Mutual's Policy Dividends and the Proposed Settlement of a Class Action Lawsuit

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On November 1, 2012, Pennsylvania residents Daniel and Edith Harshbarger filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against Penn Mutual ...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

No. 216: Donald Trump and the Two Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution—An Update

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In No. 213 (posted April 14, 2017), I wrote about a complaint that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed on Jan...
Friday, April 28, 2017

No. 215: Lincoln National—An Update on the Consolidation of Four Cost-of-Insurance Class Action Lawsuits

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In No. 212 (posted April 7, 2017), I discussed four class action lawsuits filed recently in the federal court in Philadelphia against Linco...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

No. 214: Cost-of-Insurance Increases and the New York Department of Financial Services

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For many years, life insurance companies have been imposing substantial cost-of-insurance (COI) increases on the owners of universal life a...
Friday, April 14, 2017

No. 213: Donald Trump and Alleged Violations of the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause

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Prior to his inauguration as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump was the subject of allegations that unless he took drastic ste...