National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition

1. Mass. lawmakers OK universal health initiative.(Legislation)(Brief Article)
Massachusetts senators and representatives voted 14341 in a joint session to support a universal health care bill. Advocates of the bill, H.B. 4444, want to ...
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2. MassMutual agrees to settle suits for more than $130 million: the company...
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company says it has agreed to pay at least $130 million to settle a group of suits that attack its sales ...
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3. Group life reinsurance ceded seesawed in last 5 years.(Life Reinsurance)
WHILE GROUP LIFE INSURANCE in-force business has grown steadily since 1999, reinsurance ceded from this business during this time has been a story of more ...
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4. More Americans are working past age 65.(Senior Trends)
OLDER U.S. RESIDENTS WERE more likely to be working or looking for work in 2003 than they were in 2002. When Sara Rix, a researcher ...
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5. Are today's high net worth ready to repeat history? Will consumers...
THE BEAR MARKET OF RECENT memory clearly impacted the financial behavior and mindset of the American consumer. This has been documented in many research studies ...
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6. IRS may change treatment of foreign insurers' stock earnings.(Brief...
THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has proposed a regulation that could cut foreign insurers' U.S. income taxes. The proposed regulation would let foreign insurers that do ...
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7. Industry pushes for uniformity.(Privacy Standards)
WASHINGTON THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY is taking a two-pronged approach toward a California federal court decision that calls into question whether a bill passed last ...
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8. Genworth sees softness in the LTC market.(Companies)(GENWORTH FINANCIAL INC.
GENWORTH FINANCIAL INC. has put long term care insurance on its list of products that are lagging behind expectations. General Electric Company, Fairfield, Conn., spun ...
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9. IBM expert glimpses future of technology.(Technology)
LAS VEGAS TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING so rapidly that, according to one IBM expert, "by 2015, we will have enough computing power to match the power ...
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10. Overcoming the car wash culture.(To The Point)
Years ago, the agency to which I was attached was housed in a local bank building. Attached to the bank building was a parking garage ...
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