National Underwriter

National Underwriter

• archive.org/details/pub_national-underwriter
• 1983 – Book – “adjusted index” – <WishList>
• Life Rates & Data

• • Two weeks ago in the National Underwriter, there was a report of the working group’s meeting in Philadelphia, and on the same page was a writeup about an agent who had won a very large amount of money from his company. [Bonk: agent = William Casteel]
• Apparently, he never understood about “vanish” illustrations and got into trouble with his clients.”
• I found it fascinating that the agent in the Crown Life case got $40 million for mental anguish.
  • [Bonk: Vanishing Premium]  —  [Vanishing Premium – Lawsuits]
  • 1991 – LC – Ferguson v Crown Life / Casteel – 91-11537  —  [BonkNote]   
  • 1998 – LC – Crown Life v. Casteel – 98-0218  —  [BonkNote]        
  • <WishList> – National Underwriter Article

—  Kevin A. Marti, vice president of administration and chief actuary for Westfield Life Insurance Company

1995 – SOA – Sales Illustrations, Society of Actuaries – 14p

• 1945  0518 – The National Underwriter – Life Insurance Edition – 84p
  • Heber J. Grant, 88, probably the oldest insurance executive in point of service and age in the west, died at his home in Salt Lake City after an illness of several weeks.
  • He was president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at his death, a post he had held for 26 years. He had been president of Utah Home Fire for some years, he established the Heber J. Grant & Co. general agency in 1886 and continuously headed it until his death, and he had been president of Beneficial Life of Salt Lake City since 1918.