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New Flood Insurance Authority for Washington Commissioner on Tap
Senate was scheduled to hold an initial committee hearing on S.B. 6240 Jan. 13, with the House of Representatives taking up a companion bill, H.B. 2560, the next day. The ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 13, 2010
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US Sales of Variable Annuities Drop 18% in Third Quarter, But Assets Grow on Rising Stock Markets
Insured Retirement Institute and Morningstar. Total net assets of these stock-market linked retirement-income products posted an increase in year-over-year quarter comparisons for ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 10, 2009
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Limra: Total Quarterly Sales of Life Insurance Drop 11%, but Whole Life Sees Gains
Limra said (BestWire, Sept. 14, 2009). Sales are down due to several factors, such as high unemployment, Drescher said. "As much as anything, it's related to economic uncertainty." ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 24, 2009
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Travelers' Survey Sheds Light on Social Media Risk for Businesses
Travelers Global Technology. She said it may speak to the fact that people haven't fully recognized the impact that social media can have on a business, whether the communication ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 2, 2009
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U.S. Sales of Equity-Indexed Annuities Up 21.2% in Second Quarter
American Investors Life and Aviva Life & Annuity, maintained its No. 1 spot, with sales of $1.6 billion and a 19.2% market share, according to AnnuitySpecs.com. Aviva USA, a unit ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 18, 2009
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Strategy, Technology, Sticking to Basics Credited by Top Gainers in 2008 Total Life Issued
John Hancock subsidiary, said Edelsberg. For term life, John Hancock ranked 11th in 2008, he said, citing Limra data. Daragh O'Sullivan, vice president, life product development at ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 20, 2009
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Survey Indicates Solvency II Confusion Among U.K. Insurers
Kirstie Gordon, insurance specialist at BDO Stoy Hayward, in a statement. "While the implementation of date of October 2012 might seem a long way away, it is essential that ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 17, 2009
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Financial Crisis Spurs Insurers to Look Beyond Home Markets for Growth Prospects
Among them, 28 were U.S.-based insurers; 11 are based in Italy; nine in the United Kingdom; eight in Spain and South Korea; seven in France; six in Australia; five each in Brazil, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 15, 2009
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Limra: Premiums From U.S. Individual Life Insurance Sales Drop 26% in First Quarter
The year 2009 is off to a weak start for U.S. individual life insurance, as premiums from sales dropped 26% in the first quarter, according to Limra International. Earlier this ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 11, 2009
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Banks' Annuity Fee Income Jumps 29% in 2008
New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., N.C., and SunTrust Banks Inc., Ga., led all bank holding companies in annuity commission income in 2008, at $363 ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 9, 2009
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First-Quarter U.S. Sales of Fixed Annuities Jump 78%
Treasury bonds, Alexander said. Throughout the quarter, average five-year credited rates for fixed annuities exceeded five-year Treasury bond rates by more than 100%, he said. By ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 2, 2009
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A Room With a View
The job was peeled from the chief actuary's dual role. And Beckman is far from the only chief risk officer setting up shop in the corporate suite. As risk management plays a more ...
Source: Best's Review   Date: April 1, 2009
Calling All Brokers: <I>Best's Review</I> Conducting Annual Broker Ranking Survey
Top Global Brokers list. This information will be used to rank brokers by primary insurance placement business brokerage revenue. The ranking will be printed in the July edition of ...
Source: Press Releases   Date: March 31, 2009
U.S. Applications for Life Insurance Down in 2008
Index typically climb at year end, from November through January. However, this most recent period shows values that are more in line with activity seen in the slower summer months ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 24, 2009
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U.S. Sales of Equity-Indexed Annuities Up 5.2% in Third Quarter
Aviva USA maintained its No. 1 position, with total sales of nearly $2 billion. The company increased its market share 7% since the previous quarter - at 29%, the firm said. Aviva ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 1, 2008
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BestWeek Survey Shows Obama Closing Gap on Industry Support
The insurance industry may be heavily Republican, but Sen. Barack Obama appears to be making inroads among insurance professionals. In BestWeek's final pre-election poll, the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 3, 2008
BestWeek: Industry Pros Say U.S. Can't Compete With Bermuda, Survey Finds
Golden Bear Insurance Co. in Stockton, Calif. "Reinsurance cessions, on the other hand, are handled behind the scenes, without the insured's knowledge, so alien reinsurers who have ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 24, 2008
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Nearly Nine in 10 Insurance Professionals Bracing for Credit Crisis Impact
... Morgan Bugbee, chief automobile actuary with Farmers Insurance. Alex Fox, vice president of San Francisco-based reinsurance broker Resource Intermediaries Inc., also was among ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 13, 2008
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BestWeek: Nearly Nine in 10 Insurance Professionals Bracing for Credit Crisis Impact
American International Group Inc. Survey respondents also predicted problems for life insurers who wrote guaranteed investment contracts or offered guaranteed benefits to their ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 10, 2008
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Limra: Universal Life Only Midyear Individual Life Premium to Increase
...Guide to Understanding Financial Protection Products." If rates are high, more is credited to the policy, cash values rise, and owners may be able to skip premium payments for many ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 5, 2008
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