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A.M. Best Analyst: More Than a Touch of Gray in SIFI Designations
... Citi Investment Research & Analysis. However, current disclosure makes determining just who could potentially face stage two review, the report stated. Life companies most likely ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 18, 2011
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MetLife Explores Sale of Bank's Traditional Mortgage Business
...Life Bank subsidiary in order to focus on its insurance operations. The depository business of MetLife Bank includes savings accounts, certificates of deposit and money market ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 13, 2011
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MetLife CEO: Majority of Business Shouldn't Be Governed by Banking Regulations
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., a category that includes many insurance groups (BestWire, July 21, 2011) In November 2010, MetLife (NYSE: MET) completed its $16.2 billion ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 29, 2011
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MetLife Sued By Retirees Who Claim Company Slashed Life Insurance Benefits
Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit. After they retired, however, the plaintiffs discovered that the benefits had been significantly reduced, the complaint alleges. Attorney ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 24, 2011
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Asia CFOs See Regulation as Key to Growth of China's Insurance Market
Chinese insurers, said Yao. In Asia, Yang said insurers are now facing challenges coming from strong gross domestic product growth, inflation pressure, increasing interest rates, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 26, 2011
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MetLife Faces More Regulatory Questions Over Life Insurance Practices
Security Administration's Death Master File. Insurance regulators have launched probes questioning whether life insurers have been using the Death Master File, which lists every ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 24, 2011
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Regulators Take Aim at MetLife, Nationwide in Life Insurer Hearing
...Life and Nationwide Life Insurance Co. with questions about how they use the Social Security's Death Master File, which lists the names of all deceased American citizens, in their ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 20, 2011
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BestWeek: A.M. Best Special Report Sees MPLI Stability in Soft Market Despite Declines
...Week is published by A.M. Best Co. for insurance professionals. To subscribe, visit http://www.ambest.com/sales/BestWeek. Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Co. is the world's oldest and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 29, 2011
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MetLife Hit With Second Subpoena in Claims Settlement Investigation
California Office of the Controller. The company has a large number of "industrial policies," which were primarily sold in the 1940s and 1950s to working-class people. Those ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 26, 2011
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John Hancock Settles With Calif. as States Begin Cracking Down on Life Insurers' Unclaimed Property Practices
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Nationwide Life Insurance Co., ordering each to send a representative to explain the measures their company employs to comply with the state's ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 25, 2011
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Guardian Life's the Latest to Halt Sales of Long-Term Care Insurance
Berkshire Life, in a statement. The company entered the long-term care insurance market "prudently, deliberately maintaining a small presence" to ensure that Guardian's financial ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 7, 2011
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MetLife to Halt Sales of New Long-Term Care Insurance, Cites Financial Problems for Industry
...The timing will vary based on existing contractual obligations," it said. Eldred said, "there's a number of factors" as to why MetLife is stopping sales, and interest rates are ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 11, 2010
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New ACLI Chairman: Ensure Value Proposition Is Understood
Fraizer was elected Oct. 18 and received the chairman's gavel from outgoing chairman C. Robert Henrikson, chairman, president and CEO of MetLife. The entire interview with Fraizer ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 19, 2010
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Captive Life Agents May Face Selling Conflicts After Financial Reform
That report to Congress is due within six months. Investment advisers are held to a fiduciary standard, meaning they must put the interest of their clients before their own, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 16, 2010
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ACLI: Life Insurer Profit on Death Benefit Accounts Is Good for All Insurance Customers
Council of Life Insurers, during a conference call. "Insurers obviously do gain a little bit of financial benefit, and it's actually to the benefit of all insurance consumers for ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 5, 2010
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Insurer Relationships Raised in US Rep. Rangel Ethics Case
New York, which would house his congressional papers. In some initial donor outreach, Rangel sent letters in 2005 to the New York Life Foundation and MetLife Foundation asking for ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 3, 2010
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US House Bill Would Increase Life Insurers' Retained-Asset Disclosures
Investigations by the New York attorney general and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs into life insurers' retained-asset accounts has drawn some action from congressional ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 2, 2010
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Congress Eyes Annuities as Way to Bolster Retirement Security
Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, told BestWire. "The whole thing, I think, is moving in the right direction," he said. But his organization's primary focus is on making ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 17, 2010
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MetLife Pays $13.5 Million to End Probe Related to Fees Paid to Calif. Broker
Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California said. The hidden and unreported payments were intended to encourage the San ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 16, 2010
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MetLife's Bid to Buy Alico Broadens Geographic Footprint, but Not Without Risks
...Life said it agreed to acquire AIG's American Life Insurance Co. unit in a transaction that will consist of $6.8 billion in cash and about $8.7 billion in MetLife's equity ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 8, 2010
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