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Insight: Insurance in an Age of Austerity
How will insurers be impacted? Insurers are likely to face contradictory, and therefore frustrating, conditions. Government service cutbacks, a fraying safety net and employers' ...
Source: Best's Review Date: February 1, 2012
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Reluctant to Act
Pacific Life Insurance Co. "Most planners don't think we're going to have a $5-million gift-tax exemption beyond next year," Bell said. "This is really an opportunity for ...
Source: Best's Review Date: January 1, 2012
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Eyeing the End Game
...New Jersey metropolitan area, Daniel A. Prisciotta said life insurance traditionally has been used by business owners for contingency purposes, such as the death of the owner or a ...
Source: Best's Review Date: August 1, 2011
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Insight: Estate Preservation
What we don't know is what will happen after 2012. There are several possible scenarios. -- Will the estate tax be repealed? There are three bills before the U.S. House of ...
Source: Best's Review Date: July 1, 2011
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New Estate Tax Law May Spur More Interest in Gifting
Brian Titus, the Saybrus attorney. "They will probably do it before the end of 2012 to make sure they're not caught with a lower exemption amount [after that]," he said. Saybrus ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 24, 2011
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Captives Keep Guernsey at Arms Length From Europe
European Union is scheduled to adopt at the end of 2012. Solvency II represents an attempt to create a capital adequacy structure for insurers and reinsurers throughout the ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 22, 2011
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Life Insurers Oppose Return of Tax Plans for COLI, DRD
American Council of Life Insurers. The same provisions were included in administration budgets for fiscal years 2011 and 2010, but each year, Congress gave them a cold reception, ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 16, 2011
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Estate Tax Deal Passes Senate, Faces Potential House Changes
America welcomed the Senate vote. "Many small businesses, like the majority of Big 'I' agencies, pay taxes at individual rates and would be hardest hit at a time when our economy ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 15, 2010
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Irish Life Squeezed by Economic Crisis
Davy stockbrokers in Dublin. "The life insurance sector has been under enormous pressure in the last couple of years," Lang said. "And we're still experiencing sales decline." ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 6, 2010
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