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Thursday, December 21, 2017

No. 245: Shadow Insurance and Cost-of-Insurance Increases—Recent Lawsuits Involving the Confluence of Those Topics

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"Shadow insurance" (also called "captive reinsurance") and "cost-of-insurance (COI) increases" are topics on ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

No. 244: Long-Term Care Insurance and Philip A. Falcone

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In No. 242 (posted November 20, 2017), I discussed the sale of a closed block of long-term care (LTC) insurance policies to a subsidiary of ...
Friday, December 1, 2017

No. 243: Guardian Life's Problematic Dividend Announcement

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On November 16, 2017, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America issued a press release entitled "Guardian Announces Largest Policyhold...
Monday, November 20, 2017

No. 242: Long-Term Care Insurance—The Closed Block at Kanawha Hits the News

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KMG America Corporation is a holding company formed in 2004, incorporated in Virginia, and based in Minnesota. In 2004 KMG acquired Kanawha...
Friday, November 17, 2017

No. 241: The Age 100 Problem—An Update

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In No. 141 (posted February 1, 2016), I wrote about what I call the "age 100 problem in cash-value life insurance," a topic on wh...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

No. 240: TIAA-CREF Under the Microscope

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On October 22, 2017, The New York Times carried a long article about Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) and its ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

No. 239: Transamerica's Cost-of-Insurance Increases and an Important Class Action Lawsuit

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In 1989 Gordon Feller, a California resident, purchased a $500,000 universal life policy from a California-based predecessor of Transameric...