Issues and Debates ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# A As long as you pay the premium Back to top B Bait and Switch BTID – Buy Term Invest the Difference Back to top C Change Without Damage Commissions Companies Changing Systems Complaints Confusing to People Confusion Corporate Governance Coverage Period Crisis Crisis in Confidence Back to top D Double…

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Academic Papers 1900-1959 1905 – AP – The Cost of Life Insurance, Allan H. Willett – 25p 1928 – AP – The Investment Element in Life-Insurance Contracts – Business, by S. H. Nerlove – 22p  1929 – AP – The Life Insurance Actuary and his Mathematics – Math, by Raymond V. Carpenter – 9p  1941…

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Law Reviews 1900-1939 1919 – LR – The Delivery of A Life-Insurance Policy, by Edwin W. Patterson – 26p 1940-1949 1943 – LR – Contracts of Adhesion Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract, by Friedrich Kessler – 15p 1946 – LR – Regulation of the Insurance Business and Public Law No. 15, by Herbert H.…

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Education The educational task is huge, and it’s not just with the customers; it’s with our agents also.  I would say to all of you that if you think that you don’t have any customers or any agents who fail to understand what a nonguaranteed illustration really means, you’re kidding yourself. —  Walter Miller, Prudential…

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1981-2 For example, the survey of 15 insurers conducted by the Council shows that during the first 4 months of 1981, gross loans made averaged slightly more than $600 million per month, somewhat less than the same period in 1980 but substantially higher than the same period in 1979. These periodic spurts of borrowing have…

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Newspapers newspapers.com/profile/BonkNote/ “AIG woes could be just the start,: critics say AIG took too many investment risks”, Los Angeles Times, Business Section, pp. A1, A14, No.March 30 2006 – vanishing premium – The Toronto Star – 08 Jul 2006, Sat ·Page 47 1986 – target premium / universal life – The Gettysburg Times – 13…

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New York Life William H. Beers b, d1893 1116 – NYT – [link] 1891 1023 – NYT – A Plea for Other Companies; Beer’s Course Hurts Everybody Engaged in Life Insurance – [link] John McCall  President – late 1800s-1900s 1906 0219 – New York Tribune – John A. M’Call Dead: The End Peaceful- Vol. LXV, no. 21645.…

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Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter (D-GA) 1963-1967 – US State Senator  1971-1975 – Governor of Georgia 1977-1981 – President of the United States Vice President – Walter Mondale (D-MN) Department of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury 1977-1979 – W. Michael Blumenthal (D-MI) – January 23, 1977 August 4, 1979 1979-1981 – G. William Miller (D-RI)…

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J. Edgar Hoover JFK Assasination 1971 0509 – Washington Post – Hoover Held an Insurance Post, — Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., J. Edgar Hoover — 1p Public Law 98–184 To amend the Act of March 3, 1869, incorporating the H.R. 2479 – Masonic Relief Association of the District of Columbia now known as Acacia…

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