Gunman shoots Guyana insurance commissioner – Boston Globe
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »GEORGETOWN, Guyana— A gunman shot a Guyana official in charge of dissolving a failed insurance company as she drove to work Thursday, police said. Insurance commissioner Maria Van Beek, who was hospitalized with a wound in her abdomen, has gained ...
McDonald’s executive gets hefty compensation boost – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »Chief Executive Jim Skinner of McDonald's Corp., one of only two Dow companies whose stock rose in 2008, got a 70 percent boost in his compensation in 2008, according to an Associated Press analysis of a Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Principal Financial May Rise 50% in 12 Months, Barron’s Says – Bloomberg
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Principal Financial Group Inc. , which sells life insurance and 401(k) plans, may rise to $22 a share, or 50 percent, during the next year should demand for retirement plans accelerate and as the company’s limited ...
Bank of Bonifay cancels sale – TradingMarkets.com
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »The Bank of Bonifay ended a sale agreement with Protective Life, a $39.5-billion Birminghambased life insurance company, on April 1. Protective Life's purchase of the bank hinged on the insurer getting federal bailout money, which the Treasury ... Click here ...
What To Do When Life Or Health Insurance Companies Falter – Hartford Courant
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »Many insurers are feeling a financial squeeze, and you're worried that your life insurance policy or annuity isn't safe. What should you do? Let concern, not panic, be your guide, experts say. Anxious consumers have been peppering regulators and ... ...
Free life policies to benefit kids – Detroit Free Press
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »THE CAUSE: Seymour Gill Financial and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., joined by Detroit Cristo Rey High School, are giving away a limited number of $50,000 term life insurance policies to benefit children of working families around metro ... Click ...
Confessions of a reluctant life insurance salesman – The Times
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »Life insurance salesman is a job you can land anywhere, any time, as long as you own a suit and tie, can learn a sales spiel by rote and have a relatively clean criminal record. At least that was the ...
Do-it-yourself investing: Life insurance – The Times
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »The new generation of life insurance policies include a savings component. A reader going through his bank statements queried a mysterious R43 monthly debit. It transpired this was life insurance to cover the outstanding balance of his bond — which ...
How statutory policies influence the insurance sector – Punch
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »In many developed countries, insurance still remains the backbone of their economies because of the sector‘s huge contribution to the gross domestic products. The industry is usually a big financial institution with several conglomerates including ... Click here for the ...
Fair sex doesn’t get a discount from insurance cos – Economic Times
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Life Insurance | No Comments »NEW DELHI: Life insurance companies in India make no distinction between men and women when it comes to charging premiums for the vast majority of insurance products, despite studies showing that women are outliving men — and living better ... ...