What retirement???
EconomPic: Equities Lost Decade
AIG Euro Life (and I thought US life sales were bad)
AIG’s ‘Tainted Brand’ in U.K. Hurts Life Insurer Unit (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
American International Group Inc. suffered an 87 percent quarterly sales decline at its European life business as U.K. clients abandoned the firm, draining value from operations the insurer is selling to repay a U.S. bailout.
COBRA Subsidy Extension – Update 12/1/09
LIMRA 3Q US Individual Life Insurance Sales – Not Good
Individual Life Insurance Sales—the Good and Bad News
Declines in other products resulted in total individual life insurance sales falling 11% in the third quarter of 2009, according to the LIMRA report. Overall, because of steeper decreases in Q1and Q2, total individual annualized premium sales are down 19% YTD. Universal life (UL) sales were down 14% in the Q3, compared with drops of about 30% in Q1and Q2.In the first nine months of 2009, UL declined 24%, according to LIMRA.
Until these numbers start improving, the job market for underwriters is going to remain flat.
Or worse.
LFG – Some Good News
I Don’t Like What You Wrote – You’re Fired (Turkeys)
Once again technology and creativity move more quickly than corporate policy. Call me if you need help in developing a social media policy for your company. The cartoon was drawn by an artist named Hugh Macleod. I’ve added a link to his website under my Blogroll on the sidebar.
Bloggers Find The Ax is Mightier Than The Pen | workforce.com
Turkeys – Talent Shortage Looming
The Coming Fight for Executive Talent – BusinessWeek
I’ve shortened the title of my occasional posts on management issues to Turkeys. Any negative connotations are purely coincidental. This series of posts started while underwriting at my brother’s house and his gaggle of wild turkeys walked by. So say bye-bye to “Remote Underwriting With Turkeys”. Now we’re just talkin’ turkey.
And management issues.
Insurance Fraud – What Some of Us Will Do for Money
Police: Census worker Bill Sparkman staged his suicide | csmonitor.com
Bill Sparkman, the Kentucky census worker found hanged and wrapped in duct tape with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest, concocted the entire scenario as an elaborate ruse to commit insurance fraud, Kentucky police said Tuesday.
CRP as Risk Factor for CHD
Conclusion: Strong evidence indicates that CRP is associated with CHD events. Moderate, consistent evidence suggests that adding CRP to risk prediction models among initially intermediate-risk persons improves risk stratification. However, sufficient evidence that reducing CRP levels prevents CHD events is lacking.
DM in Older Mexican Americans
The prevalence of diabetes among Mexican Americans aged ≥75 years has nearly doubled between 1993–1994 and 2004–2005 from 20.3 to 37.2%, respectively (P < 0.001).
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