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AIG Units Add Service In Spanish
By Staff WriterAmerican General Life Insurance Company and the United States Life Insurance Company have introduced a bilingual customer service call center for individual policyholders.American General Life, ...
January 21, 2007
New BlackBerry Offers Functional GainsWhile mobile computing is still a tough sell in the slow-to-adopt-technology insurance industry, the makers of the popular BlackBerry wireless handheld device are continuing to ...
January 21, 2007
Advisors Save Time, Learn More With Web-Based TrainingIn 2003, my company faced a critical challenge: how to effectively deliver training to a nationwide field force. The solution, we found, lay in supplementing ...
January 19, 2007
Regulatory Commission: 29 Members And CountingMichigan has become the 29th state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact Commission.Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation permitting Michigan to join the IIPRCC ...
January 19, 2007
NAIC Organizes Agenda For 2007The National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting here could include work on a product regulation group, one regulator says.Officials at the NAIC, Kansas City, Mo., ...
January 18, 2007
AALU Executive Reacts To Senate Deferred Comp ProposalThe Association for Advanced Life Underwriting is lobbying against the non-qualified deferred compensation provisions that were added Wednesday to the Senate Finance Committee's version of ...
January 18, 2007
Cerulli: 401(k) Outflows Will AccelerateThe aging of the baby boomers already is starting to squeeze retirement plan providers.Researchers at Cerulli Associates, Boston, have presented that conclusion in a new ...
January 18, 2007
Appeals Court Rejects Maryland Health Insurance MandateA federal appeals court in Baltimore says state laws that give employers a choice between providing health coverage and paying a tax or fee violate ...