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Hotel Chain Joins Medical Tourism Initiative
By Staff WriterInterContinental Hotels Group P.L.C. has agreed to work with the Medical Tourism Association to help patients with the logistics of getting health care in Latin ...
June 03, 2008
Carrier Backs Financial Education TourNationwide Mutual Insurance Company is sponsoring a series of financial seminars featuring Tavis Smiley.Smiley, a PBS talk show host, is encouraging the consumers attending the ...
June 03, 2008
Curian Adds Advisor Support PackageA company that runs a fee-based separately managed account program is appealing to financial professionals with a new sales support service.Curian Capital L.L.C., Denver, a ...
June 03, 2008
LIMRA Reports Higher Annuity SalesTotal U.S. sales of individual annuities climbed to $63 billion during the first quarter, up 9% from the total for the first quarter of 2007.Sales ...
June 03, 2008
High Court Rejects Disability Evidence CaseThe U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up Lynn Jewell vs. Life Insurance Company of North America.The case, which came from the 10th U.S. ...
June 03, 2008
Guardian Recognizes Young EntrepreneurBrandi Lynn Thomas, 16, has won the 2008 Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award.Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, sponsors the scholarship contest, which ...
June 03, 2008
NAIC Panel Greenlights ProjectsRegulators have received the go-ahead to develop one model regulation that will seek to curb unsuitable annuity sales and another model that will seek to ...
June 02, 2008
NAIC Task Force Releases ROP DraftAn arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has revised a proposed actuarial guideline and exposed a draft of the guideline for discussion.Members of ...