ELNY – Executive Life of New York Edward Stone Law – ELNY edwardstonelaw.com/?s=elny edwardstonelaw.com/elny/class-action-lawsuit/ edwardstonelaw.com/elny/elny-in-the-news/ edwardstonelaw.com/elny/elny-litigation/ Karen L. Shaw et al v The United States  Trevor Langkamp v The United States No. 15-764C  filed March 20, 2017 No. 18-2052 – Appeals Court Decision – 14p (p2) – Because we conclude that the court erred in…

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MassMutual Haven Life – MassMutual (p21) – Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH):  At a recent meeting of underwriters, Thomas Wheeler, a chief executive officer of Massachusetts Mutual, said in the last decade:  “Some companies encourage churning”, meaning rolling over whole life business into universal life. Not only did these companies swap high-margin products for low-margin ones, they often…

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Drexel Burnham Lambert Michael Milken Executive Life Insurance Company Frederick Joseph Robert Linton Leon Black Drexel Burnham Lambert Apollo Global Management – co-founder and former CEO of the private equity firm  Leon Black, Chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management – [VIDEO-YouTube] Joe Cassano – AIGFP 1991 – Book – Den of Thieves, James B. Stewart…

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Monarch Life Insurance Company Merrill Lynch Single-Premium Life Insurance Variable Life Jerome S. Golden – Monarch NAIC – Variable Life Insurance Task Force 1988 0325 – GOV (Senate) – Tax Treatment of Single-Premium Life Insurance, (CSPAN) Single Premium Life Insurance, Max Baucus, (D-MT)  —  [BonkNote] 1995 – GAO – Insurance Regulation: Observations on the Receivership of…

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Companies Companies – Index AIG Baldwin United Conseco EF Hutton Equity Funding Corporation of America Executive Life ELNY – Executive Life of New York Equitable Life The Hartford Life of Virginia John Hancock / Manulife Lincoln Life MassMutual Minnesota Mutual Monarch MetLife New York Life Pacific Life Prudential SunAmerica Mutual Companies New Companies Stock Companies…

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AIG – American International Group AIG – Index 2008 Financial Crisis – AIG FCIC – AIG FSOC – AIG Securities Lending – AIG Sandbox-AIG AIG’s financial difficulties stemmed primarily from two sources: Securities lending. Until 2008, AIG had maintained a large securities lending program operated by its insurance subsidiaries. The securities lending program allowed insurance…

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Mergers and Acquisitions My question revolves around the notion that it seems as if we talk about the life insurance company as acquiring other services which it will offer in some basket of services. But when we talk about the financial services industry and the life insurance  business, the reality is that the other financial…

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John Hancock / Manulife Manulife 1997 1030 – GOV (Senate) – Class Action Lawsuits: Examining Victim Compensation and Attorneys’ Fees, Charles Grassley (R-IA)  —  [BonkNote] 2018 1004 – ThinkAdvisor – Muddy Waters Shorts Manulife on Risks in Universal Life Trial, By Erik Schatzker, Katherine Chiglinsky and Ivan Levingston – [link] Toronto-based Manulife is one of the biggest…

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Pacific Life John C. McCone (Board / CIA Director) Thomas S. Sutton  Bill Hezzelwood 1991 0227, 0507, 0509 and 0523 – GOV (House) – Insurance Company Solvency, (CSPAN) Insurance Company Insolvencies, Cardiss Collins (D-IL)  —  [BonkNote]  —  [PDF-369p-GooglePlay,  VIDEO-0509-CSPAN]  NAIC IULSG With respect to guardrails, Pacific Life believes that it is critical that any proposed limit on the illustration…

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A. L. Williams Primerica – A.L. Williams – Index Insurance Regulators – Associated with A.L. Williams / Primerica Texas 1979 to 1987 – Lyndon L. Olson Jr. 1994 0501 – NYT – Mischief Under the Travelers Umbrella, By Michael Quint – [link]  Georgia 1971-?-1985 – Johnnie Caldwell 1955-1970 – Georgia House of Representatives   1987 0721 -…

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