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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

No. 410: The Age 100 Problem Remains Alive and Well

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My first article about the age 100 problem in cash-value life insurance was in the January 2001 issue of The Insurance Forum , my monthly ne...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

No. 409: COVID-19 and Life Insurance Underwriting

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The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) recently announced it had written to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) abo...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

No. 408: A Recent Change in the Federal Income Tax Law Designed to Benefit Wealthy Life Insurance Policyholders

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On January 10, 2021, The Wall Street Journal posted online an article by reporter Leslie Scism entitled "A Small Tax Change Is a Boon ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

No. 407: Security Life of Denver Is the Defendant in an Ongoing 2018 Cost-of-Insurance Class Action Lawsuit

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The July 2018 Complaint On July 26, 2018, Advance Trust & Life Escrow Services (Advance Trust) filed a cost-of-insurance class action la...
Friday, January 8, 2021

No. 406: Genworth and Oceanwide—Recent Developments

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The January 4 Genworth/Oceanwide Update On October 21, 2016, Genworth Financial Inc, (Genworth) entered into a merger agreement with China O...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

No. 405: American National and Lincoln Benefit Are the Defendants in Two Similar Class Action Lawsuits

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American National Insurance Company (ANIC) and Lincoln Benefit Life Company (LBL) are the defendants in two similar class action lawsuits. T...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

No. 404: Executive Compensation in the Insurance Industry—2019 Data from the Nebraska Department of Insurance

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Background Beginning in 1975, in many issues of The Insurance Forum , I provided tabulations of executive compensation data in the insuranc...