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Philip Hart Philip A. Hart (D-MI) 1959-1976 – US Senate When an issue begins is sometimes difficult to discern. This particular issue may be traced to an address to the American Life Convention Annual Meeting in 1968. The late Senator Hart advised the insurance industry that it should improve cost disclosure. Senator Hart had become…

Van Mueller vanmueller.com/ Now is the greatest time ever to be an insurance agent Newsletter Heroes of Zero  —  [BonkNote] The Marris Group New England Life Richard Corbett The Freeman -Sat, Feb 19, 2000 ·Page 14 Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Mon, Feb 23, 1998 ·Page 97 https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram/151789279/ The Post-Crescent -Sun, Oct 19, 2003 ·Page 33…

Richard Wicka ? – 2023 – OCI – Wisconsin – Chief Legal Counsel (as of 2023 01) 2023 0109 – OCI – Wisconsin – Press Release – Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner makes leadership appointments – [link] Lauren U. Van Buren has been appointed as Chief Legal Counsel to replace Richard Wicka, who is departing to pursue opportunities…

Mary Mealer Missouri Chair – Product Standards Committee (PSC), Insurance Compact Chair – NAIC Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide Subgroup Chair – NAIC Life Insurance Online Guide (A) Working Group Member – Life Insurance Illustration Issues (A) Working Group I feel like this is like the Groundhogs Day Movie all over again almost every call.  We…

Teresa Winer engage.soa.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=a8c2da9f-14ba-4ed8-af19-45cd4d8a8554 The first survey we did was basically of retirees: anybody  who has an FSA prior to 1960 and is still actively employed. We wanted to see what they’re doing and what kind of lessons they want to share with other people, which would feed into the Ambassador Program. It would be somebody…

Kim O’Brien CEO of the Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice facchoice.com/ AAP  – Americans for Asset Protection 2018 –  formally known as Americans for Annuity Protection 2022 0202 – fa-mag.com – Insurance Agents Sue to Overturn DOL Rule, by FA Staff – [link] The Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice, a trade group representing…

Paul J Mason Developments in the Life Insurance Industry Paul J. Mason, Jerold H. Rosenblum Practising Law Institute, 1986 – Insurance, Life – 616 pages   Wishlist 1985 – “Variable Universal Life Insurance” – Society of Actuaries. “For a good summary of the development of the NAIC Model Variable Life Regulation, Rule 6e-2 and the state and federal issues associated…

Walter Miller dignitymemorial.com/obituaries///walter-miller 1951-1986 – New York Life Insurance Company 1986-1994 –  Prudential Insurance Company (senior vice president and chief actuary for Prudential Preferred Financial Services)  We continue to put out these apples vs. oranges illustrations. We’re misleading our policyholders. We are providing the ammunition to make replacements of inforce policies with new coverage that…

Vivian Zelizer Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer has detailed in her book “Morals and Markets,” for a long time life insurance failed to thrive in the U.S. because people didn’t like the idea of placing a value on human life, and wives often felt as if they were betting on the deaths of their husbands. Life insurance…

Solomon S. Huebner S. S. Huebner 1905 – Federal Supervision and Regulation of Insurance, Huebner – [link-jstor-28p] 1906 – – The Study of Insurance in American Universities, Huebner – [link-jstor-20p] 1917 0510 – Nature – Economics of Life Insurance – Volume 99, pages 215–216 – [link] Abstract SIX papers relating to problems of life insurance, read…