Newspapers - 1990s

  • 1991 0511 - NYT - California Curbs First Capital Life - [link]
  • 1991 0716 - Los Angeles Times - Mutual Benefit Insurance Fails After Run on Assets : Economy: It is the largest such collapse in U.S. The New Jersey company cites bad real estate investments. - [link]
  • 1991 0716 - The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina) - Customers Try To Cash In After Insurance Takeover (Mutual Benefit) - <WishList>
  • 1993 0124 - The Washington Post - States Need to Reform Insurance Guaranty Funds, Jane Bryant Quinn - [link]
    • To reduce the lottery element of settlements, the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has proposed a single, interstate guaranty fund.
  • 1993 0910 - Los Angeles Times - Regulators Blast Insurers, Call for Reform: Consumers: A task force criticizes economic assumptions and marketing tactics used to sell life policies., by Thomas S. Mulligan - [link]
  • 1994 0212 - The Baltimore Sun - Life insurance industry will not police itself, by Jane Bryant Quinn - [link]
    • MetLife, Retirement Plans, 65,000, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Peter Katt
  • 1994 0313 - The Washington Post - Do Life Insurers Foul the Sales Pitch?, By Albert B. Crenshaw - [link]
    • Belth, Hunt, MetLife (LIRP), Regulators
  • 1994 1023 - Hartford Courant Newspaper - Life Insurers Move to Improve Image Amid Public Skepticism - [link]
  • 1994 0613 - The Daily Courier - Illustrations used to show policy projections - [link]
  • 1994 0613 - apnews - Life Insurance Buyers Allege Misleading Sales Tactics Were Used With PM-Vanishing Premiums-Illustrations, Mark Dennis - [link]
  • 1994 0613 - The Daily Courier -  Life Insurance Buyers Allege Misleading Sales Tactics - [link]
  • 1994 0708 -  Kiplinger's Magazine, Chicago Tribune - Looks Can Be Deceiving, Kristin Davis - [link]
  • 1995 0526 - NYT -  6-State Force to Open Inquiry Into Insurance Sales Practices - [link]
  • 1995 1104 - Greensboro Newspaper - Full Disclosure on Life Insurance Still Eons Away, Jane Bryant Quinn - [link]
  • 1996 1001 - The Washington Post - Part 1: Proving a Case of Insurance Deception, by Jane Bryant Quinn - [link]
  • 1997 0525 - NYT -  A Tale of Unraveled Fortune - [link]
  • 1998 0918 - Washington Post - Pentagon Bars Life Insurance Firm Because of 'Deceptive' Practices - [link]