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Hartford Applies For Thrift Charter
By Arthur D. PostalHartford Financial Services Inc. says it has applied for permission to become a savings and loan holding company, clearing the way for it to participate ...
November 13, 2008
Condron: Risk Management Is KeyIn spite of short-term concerns about the current market crisis, life insurers continue to be uniquely poised to help prevent a retirement crisis, according to ...
November 12, 2008
Coalition Asks Ways And Means For Pension ReliefAbout 300 insurers, business groups, employers and union chapters are pleading with House Ways and Means Committee leaders for help easing Pension Protection Act funding ...
November 12, 2008
AALU Event Speakers Ponder New CongressThe next Congress could give the life insurance industry a federal charter system--but participants in a discussion hosted by a group that backs the optional ...
November 11, 2008
Greenberg: AIG Asset Prices Will Rise In 3 YearsFormer American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice Hank Greenberg is continuing to make the case that, "AIG had a liquidity problem, not a solvency problem," ...
November 11, 2008
Health Insurer Adopts Automation SoftwareWisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp. is starting to use a document composition system from Cincom Systems Inc.WPS Health, Madison, Wis., has implemented the Cincom Eloquence ...
November 11, 2008
Marketing Group Adopts Hosted StrategyM Financial Group, a life insurance distribution consortium, is letting E-Z Data Inc. run the company's SmartOffice agency management system on its own computers.M Financial, ...
November 11, 2008
Health Carriers License Call Center TechA company that controls patents says 3 insurers have agreed to settlements in connection with the technology they use to communicate with customers.A unit of ...