The Federal Reserve has cleared Protective Life Corp., the Birmingham, Ala., insurer, to become a bank holding company, making the carrier eligible to a slice of the $700 billion federal bailout.
One of the suits was brought in federal court in New York by the Chicago-based American Medical Association, which led medical societies, health plan members and medical-care providers against the carrier.
Genworth Financial Inc.’s long term care insurance business has teamed with the National LTC Network Inc. in a marketing relationship aimed at selling the insurer’s products and services.
Jackson National Life Insurance Co. of Lansing, Mich., today launched its new corporate <a href=http://www.jackson.com>website</a>, which includes new tools for advisers and registered representatives.
Genworth Financial Inc. kicked off the new year by firing approximately 1,000 of its 7,300 employees worldwide in an attempt to cut the insurer’s spending.
The new year promises to be a tough one for the U.S. life and health insurance sectors, according to an industry report card released today by Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services.
Britain’s FSA has fined international reinsurance giant Aon 5.25 million pounds ($7.9 million) for failing to maintain effective anti-bribery systems.
Pennsylvania’s insurance commissioner yesterday seized control of Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Co., a foundering long term care insurer, because it’s having difficulty maintaining appropriate capital levels.
Cigna anticipates that most of the layoffs will be completed by the middle of this year and that all of the affected employees will be eligible for severance benefits and outplacement support.
Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services today lowered its counterparty credit and financial ratings on Nationwide Financial, the life insurance division of Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., to A+, from AA-.
Tremont Group Holdings, which is owned by OppenheimerFunds Inc., a subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual, had $3.3 billion invested with Mr. Madoff — more than half of its total $5.8 billion under management.
Axa SA of Paris, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Springfield and Swiss Reinsurance Co., as well as other all-star companies, have also been exposed to Mr. Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Morgan Stanley downgraded ING Groep NV, Standard Life PLC and Aegon NV to “underweight” from “equal weight,” expecting more challenges ahead for the insurers, Reuters reported.
The Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., has announced the departure of James E. Hohmann, president and chief executive of Allstate Financial LLC, who is leaving on Jan. 5.
MetLife Inc. today said that its fourth-quarter profits will be up from the 2007 period and that it will reap the benefits of investment gains.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners of Kansas City, Mo., yesterday adopted a new proposal to modernize state-based regulation of reinsurance.
Shares of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. jumped this morning on news that the company has raised its earnings guidance for the end of the year.
AIG is in need of a federal government guaranty to meet counterparty collateral requirements, its former CEO Maurice Greenberg, said today.
Genstar Capital LLC, a San Francisco-based private-equity firm, yesterday agreed to buy Long Term Care Group Inc., an outsourced services administrator.
While variable annuity performance has plunged this fall, the hedging programs designed to protect the products have helped carriers save $40 billion during September and October, according to a study from Milliman Inc.
