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Thursday, July 27, 2017

No. 227: Long-Term Care Insurance—A Major Ruling in a Lawsuit against CalPERS

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones recently handed down a major ruling in a class action lawsuit against the California Public E...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

No. 226: The Age 100 Problem—The Achilles' Heel of Life Insurance—Lands in Court

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On July 20, 2017, Gary Lebbin and a trust he created filed a lawsuit against Transamerica Life Insurance Company relating to what I have ca...
Friday, July 14, 2017

No. 225: Genworth Financial—Voluntary Dismissal of a Class Action Lawsuit Filed by Long-Term Care Insurance Policyholders

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On December 28, 2016, Erika Leifer and two other long-term care (LTC) insurance policyholders filed a class action lawsuit against Genworth...
Friday, July 7, 2017

No. 224: Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts—The Plan to Convert into a Mutual Company

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On May 19, 2017, James Morgan, president and chief executive officer of Savings Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts (SBLI), notified polic...
Friday, June 23, 2017

No. 223: Long-Term Care Insurance—Why It Is Wrong for States To Help Private Companies Sell the Product

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In May 2017 an Indiana resident shared with me a long-term care (LTC) insurance promotional mailing he had just received. The mailing purpo...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

No. 222: The Surplus Limitation Law in Massachusetts and a Quiet Amendment

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In No. 218 (posted May 18, 2017), I wrote about the March 2017 settlement of a July 2012 class action lawsuit against Massachusetts Mutual ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

No. 221: David McCullough's New Book—A Sparkling Gem

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Readers of this blog know David McCullough is one of my favorite historians. He has received, among many honors, two Pulitzer prizes, two N...