Life Insurance
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Accounting Board Members Clash Over DAC Change
By Staff WriterMembers of the Financial Accounting Standards Board have voted 4-3 to implement new rules that could require life and health insurers to cut billions of ...
February 01, 2007
Canadian Company To Acquire Marsh Fund UnitGreat-West Lifeco Inc. has agreed that it and an affiliate will pay a total of $3.9 billion for Putnam Investments and Putnam's 25% stake in ...
February 01, 2007
Italian Insurer Prepared To Settle Holocaust ClaimsLawyers for plaintiffs and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. may be getting closer to settling Holocaust-era claims.The lawyers leading the plaintiffs' legal team, who are associated with ...
February 01, 2007
Italian Insurer Prepared To Settle Holocaust ClaimsLawyers for plaintiffs and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. may be getting closer to settling Holocaust-era claims.The lawyers leading the plaintiffs' legal team, who are associated with ...
February 01, 2007
Caught in the UndertowDo your clients own a beachfront retreat in Hilton Head? A second home with a private dock in Boca Raton? A primary residence filled with...
February 01, 2007
"Mommie Dearest..."Sometimes a client's sense of self has been badly damaged by her mother, and for one reason or another (the mother's death, for example) the...
February 01, 2007
A Matter of Life and HealthHealth insurance: we all need it, and though we may sometimes think of the premiums as just one more tax on our income, nobody really...
January 31, 2007
No excuse for excusesHave you ever forgotten to do something - or done the wrong thing - and needed a way out? We'd like to believe that most people in the wrong respond by doing right. They own up to their mistakes, apologize, and try not to repeat them. But that was