Q: Should A Life Insurance Policy Be Split? – SIV/CIV High early cash value policies, “premium endowments,” and other policies which overemphasize the cash-value buildup have been around for years. Recently, however, some state insurance departments have been taking a closer look at these policies. At least one state has gone so far as to…

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Q: Who Can Explain How Life Insurance Policies Work? The insider joke about indexed universal-life policies is that it takes an actuary, an attorney and maybe even an engineer to understand how the product works. Some regulators worry that hypothetical projections of savings growth using these indexes are overly rosy and can lead to unrealistic…

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ACLI – TRG – Technical Resource Goup – NAIC George Coleman, Prudential, ACLI, TRG-Technical Resource Group for the NAIC (Industry Advisory Group – Illustrations) 1990s – LDWG -Life Disclosure Working Group – (A) – NAIC I think you really have to make sure that people understand volatility, whether you solve for a policy blowing up…

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Complex Products More complex products sold to individual consumers (e.g., universal life policies) tend to generate more market conduct problems than simple products (e.g., term life insurance). 2003 0701 – Report – For NCOIL – The Path to Reform – The Evolution of Market Conduct Surveillance Regulation, by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Georgia State University – 117p…

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Options – Life Insurance Policy Michael Lovendusky, ACLI …said the ACLI work group thinks that most confusion for consumers involves complex products like universal life, and not Simple products like term life. He said consumers are mostly confused about options, guarantees and riders. The ACLI work group was considering asking the life insurance and Annuities…

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Punitive Damages 1997 – LR – Punitive Damages Reform: The Case of Alabama, by George L. Priest – 17p Gallant v. Prudential 27. Gallant v. Prudential Life Ins. Co., Barbour County, AL, CY·93-S0 (1994)  Ferguson v Crown Life

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Matt Taibbi c-span.org/person/?1011360/MattTaibbi rollingstone.com/author/matt-taibbi/ 2009 0821 – Rolling Stones – Ladies and Gentlemen, AIG’s New Chief!, by Matt Taibbi – [link] 2010 – Book – Griftopia, by Matt Taibbi – [BonkNote]

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Q: What is the NAIC? Trade Group or Standard-Setter? 2011 1219 – ThinkAdvisor – Is the NAIC a Trade Group or Official Standard-Setter?, By Elizabeth Festa & Arthur D. Postal – [link] The National Association of Insurance Commissioners Tuesday plans to announce an initiative to brand itself as a “standard-setting organization” rather than a trade group–a…

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