I’ve added a link to the US Courts website page on the basics of bankruptcy.
Read up. You’ll be underwriting a lot more bankruptcy cases in the years to come.
Author: SupremeCmdr
SCOR Update – July 22, 2009
XL Re Life Goes To SCOR – Companies/Financial – Life and Health Insurance News
“This small acquisition . . . proves that SCOR is able to profit from market opportunities in the current environment,” SCOR Chairman Denis Kessler says in a statement.
No, this small acquisition proves you can make a small acquisition. XL Re Life America in Stamford, CT had $31.2 million in premiums in 2008.
New Link! (sorry, not a remote underwriting job site)
http://depts.washington.edu/hepstudy/index.html
To be honest, I still have some trouble keeping all of my hepatitis antibodies and surface antigens straight. Well, if you’re like me you will love the new link I added under Hepatitis (creative, no?).
Happy Hepatitis reading (lots of cool charts too).
Why The War in Mexico Bothers Me So Much
The War to Our South – Update July 20, 2009
Choose Success
You have to get people to make good decisions. Wherever you are in life, good or bad, it’s because of the choices you make. Choose to succeed rather than fail. Choose to work hard rather than to loaf your way through it. We had a plan, a vision and we wouldn’t compromise our core values.
Lou Holtz at his induction ceremony into the College Football Hall of Fame
Attack of the Giant Killer Squids
BBC NEWS | Americas | San Diego menaced by jumbo squid
In Calif., A Rare Look At Humboldt Squid : NPR
New avocation risk. Underwriters (and divers) beware.
Scary Chart of the Day – July 17, 2009
Underwriters need to pay attention to statistics like these for financial underwriting purposes
MOO Needs Help – Telecommuting May Be An Option
Job Description – Underwriter / Sr. Underwriter / Underwriting Consultant – Life (016307)
Telecommuting may be available based on candidate need.
Telecommuting may be available based on candidate need.
This is the 1st life UW job posting I’ve seen in weeks. BTW, it is not a new opening but a re-posting. When I inquired about the position last year, telecommuting was not an option. Now telecommuting may be an option.
The glacier is moving.
Alcohol and Cause Specific Mortality in Russia
Alcohol-attributable mortality varies by year; in several recent years, alcohol was a cause of more than half of all Russian deaths at ages 15—54 years. Alcohol accounts for most of the large fluctuations in Russian mortality, and alcohol and tobacco account for the large difference in adult mortality between Russia and western Europe.
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