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New Study Examines Long-Term Care Insurance Claims – Largest Claims Reaches $1.7 Million Mark – Women Represent Two-Thirds Of Claimants – Insurance Broadcasting
The largest open long-term care insurance claim has reached $1.7 million in paid benefits, according to a just-released report from the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (www.AALTCI.org). The claimant, a woman, purchased coverage at age 43, paying an annual premium of $881. Three years later her long term care insurance claim began and has continued for almost 15 years.
More Financial Scammers Are Targeting Seniors :: Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog
As America ages, regulators are seeing more and more financial abuse of people 50 years of age or older. The North American Securities Administrators Association NASAA, the association of state securities regulators, reportedly filed 1,241 such enforcement actions in 2010, the latest year for which data has been compiled – more than double the 506 enforcement actions filed in 2009 “Financial Scammers Prey on Seniors,” by Anne Teresen, Wall Street Journal.
via More Financial Scammers Are Targeting Seniors :: Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog.
For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder : NPR
For Freelancers, Landing A Workspace Gets Harder : NPR.
More than 30 percent of the nation’s workers now work on their own, and the research firm IDC projects the number of nontraditional office workers — telecommuters, freelancers and contractors — will reach 1.3 billion worldwide by 2015.
The Hartford Will Break Apart
The Hartford: Insurer Will Break Apart, Raising Questions About Jobs – Courant.com.
Good article on current events at The Hartford.
Insurance Agents Charged In $100 Million Fraud Scheme – Forbes
The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis – Umair Haque
When the rules are broken, never play by the rules.
via The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review.
How to Completely, Utterly Destroy an Employee’s Work Life
How to completely, utterly destroy an employee’s work life – The Washington Post.
HT John Hollon
Not a complete How To Manual but a good starting point nonetheless.
Independent Contractors Helping to Shape the New World of Work
Of 530 recently surveyed independent consultants, more than 80 percent expressed satisfaction with their employment status, although 27 percent admitted that, given the chance, they would return to a full-time job.
via Independent Contractors Helping to Shape the New World of Work – Featured Article – Workforce.
Sagicor Life Acquiring PEMCO’s Life Insurance Business
Sagicor Life Insurance Co. has an agreement to buy the policies and clients of PEMCO Life Insurance Co. from its parent company in Washington State as the latter firm exists the life insurance market.
Tampa-based Sagicor is buying about 10,000 term and whole life policies, along with about 7,500 clients, from PEMCO Mutual Insurance Co., a Washington State-based company.
lifeunderwriter.net 
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