Minnesota Mutual Changed Name to Securian Life in 2001 Adjustable Life Insurance Walter Chapin govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1986-12-15/pdf/FR-1986-12-15.pdf Minnesota Mutual pioneered, and Bankers Life of Des Moines quickly adopted, an adjustable life policy enabling policyholders to switch from term to whole‐life and back again. 1979 0930 – NYT – The Appeal of Life Insurance Fades, But Most Families…

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Bear Stearns Samuel Lek, Lek Securities 2008 0306 – SEC – Bear Stearns Notes – 3/6/08 to 3/14/08, Steve Spurry – FCIC – 7p Bob Upton explained that hedge funds are starting rumors and creating difficulties. He notes in particular Lek Securities – which we also saw on Bloomberg. I believe he said Lek’s name seemed…

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Troubled Companies During the early 1990s, however, the solvency problems of the life insurance industry increased, climaxing in the failure in 1991 of several large insurers– Executive Life Insurance Company, First Capital Life Insurance Company (EF Hutton) Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company, Monarch Life Insurance Company, and Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Assessments for Executive…

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Agent – Company 2021 0809 – Amicus Brief – PIABA – Public Investors Advocate Bar Association – 8p 2022 0718 – Amicus – PIABA – Public Investors Advocate Bar Association – in Opposition to Request for Depublication of Williams v. Nat’l Western Life Ins. Co – 4p 2021 0809 – Amicus Brief – PIABA -…

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Companies – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# A Acacia Academy Life Insurance Company ACLI – American Council of Life Insurance ACLI – Membership – Companies Aegon AETNA AGC Life insurance Company Agents vs. Companies AGLIC – American General Life Insurance Company AIG Annuity Insurance Company AIG – American International Group AIG – American International Group – Index AIL…

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Munich Re munichre.com/en.html 2019 – Munich Re – Whole Life vs Universal Life, ILEC Observations – 4p 2000 – Munich Re – Unit-linked insurance: A general report – 51p The product names (e.g. “Universal Life” and “Variable Life” in North America) will be fully described in a later paper in this series. (p9) 4.4 ADEQUATE SYSTEMS…

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Guardian Reasonable consumers acting reasonably recognize sales pitches and ordinarily discount them accordingly. In addition, to acknowledge that consumers understand that future interest rates will affect their future premium rates is reasonable and even respectful of individual intelligence, personal accountability and good common sense (see, Fischel & Stillman, supra, at 16). 1999 – LC -…

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Transamerica Aegon Transamerica  WFG – World Financial Group interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov/apex_extprd/f?p=144:6:::NO:RP,6:P6_COMPANY_ID:5738 Name History TRANSAMERICA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY – Current –  03/01/2001  PFL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY – Old – 01/01/1991 NN INVESTORS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, INC. – Old 2012 1101 – Letter – Transamerica to SEC – Re: Supplemental Comments on Stable Value Contract Study, CFTC/SEC Release No.…

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Stock Companies Many stock life insurance companies seem to feel that it is imperative for them to offer new and attractive products in order to survive in the present environment. 1981-1, NAIC Proceedings

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Bankassurance 21 There are various definitions of bankassurance. By focusing on production, a bankassurer can be defined as a financial group or conglomerate that includes both bank credit origination and insurance underwriting. But bankassurance can be limited to distribution agreements only in which a bank merely distributes third-party insurance products in a contractual agreement with…

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