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Life Insurance And Annuities

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Insurance lobby creates PAC

The Association for Advanced Life Underwriting has created a political action committee, the organization announced.

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AIG chief takes pay-package cut

CEO Martin Sullivan's pay package was sliced by one-third after AIG reported a 56% drop in annual profit in its 2007 net.

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Gallagher to buy insurance broker

Life Insurance Strategies arranges premium financing of large policies for high-net-worth clients.

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New York Life appoints CEO

A 25-year veteran of the retirement and investment management industry, John Y. Kim comes to NYLIM from Prudential Retirement.

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Phoenix enters life insurance settlements biz

The firm announced its foray into the life settlements industry as the first insurance carrier to buy unwanted policies.

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Insurers can’t refuse coverage due to travel

NAIC has revised its rules to keep life insurers from refusing coverage based on customers’ future travel.

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Barclays chooses MetLife as annuity provider

MetLife is bringing in its deferred income annuity as an asset allocation option in a defined contribution plan.

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Insurer sues ex-chief executive

AIG has filed suit against ex-chief executive Maurice Greenberg and six other former directors and executives, accusing them of breaching fiduciary duty,

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New York Life Insurance

The firm reported that its operating earnings jumped 17% to a record level of $1.28 billion for 2007.

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Pershing makes annuities available to B-Ds

Annuities are from Principal Financial Group, Symetra Life Insurance and firms affiliated with MetLife Investors.

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Aflac shareholders get ‘say on pay’ vote

Aflac's directors have released a proxy statement inviting its shareholders to vote on performance-based compensation.

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Retirement Income: Advisers still poke holes in retirement income products

Even as the financial services industry scurries to provide advisers with better retirement income vehicles, advisers continue to criticize the new products.

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AIG to pay Pennsylvania $13.5 million

AIG will pay $13.5 million to settle an investigation involving its alleged sham reinsurance deal with General Re.

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Insurance for Fifi and Fido

Pets Best Insurance Services is bringing coverage to man's best friends through banks and employee benefit providers.

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Correction

Due to a technical error, an old story about Robert R. Carter stepping down from his role as president of NFP Insurance Services Inc., ran in today's INDaily.

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Jackson National’s earnings rise

Jackson National Life reported today a 14% earnings increase and $4.1 billion in revenue for 2007.

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Advisers focus more on health of insurance carriers

Financial advisers are looking more closely at the financial health of insurance carriers before they recommend life insurance…

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Fixed annuities sales down 9% in ’07

Estimated sales of book value annuities totaled $6.9 billion, while sales of indexed annuities totaled $6.3 billion.

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Nationwide Mutual to buy back shares for $2.2B

The move is intended to simplify the mutual company's ownership structure, according to the firm.

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Cuomo presses insurers for payment info

The New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is broadening his investigation into health insurers’ practices related to payments for out-of-network services.