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Safe landing in 2007? (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)


Safe landing in 2007? (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
In Gone with the Wind, Gerald O'Hara says "Land is the only thing worth fighting for, living for, dying for." In 2006, the Indian state was forced to reckon with intractable problems associated with land. Farmers and their self-appointed advocates opposed land for SEZs and factories. The Supreme Court insisted that urban land be used according to the government's stated plans; the government was ...

Euro hasn't dethroned dollar ... yet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The euro, which made its debut on world financial markets eight years ago, has yet to seriously challenge the dollar as the world's leading reserve currency despite recent signs of movement away from the greenback.

Euro hasn't dethroned dollar ... yet (TODAYonline)
Bundles of US dollar bills are moved through the wrapping machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. The euro, which made its debut on world financial markets eight years ago, has yet to seriously challenge the dollar as the world's leading reserve currency despite recent signs of movement away from the greenback.

Financial Industries Finalizes Sale Of Family Life Insurance Company To


Financial Industries Finalizes Sale Of Family Life Insurance Company To Manhattan Life Insurance - Quick Facts (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Financial Industries Corp. (FNIN.PK) reported that it has completed the previously announced sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Family Life Insurance Company, to The Manhattan Life Insurance Company following receipt of approval for the transaction from the Texas Department of Insurance.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

New China Life's Chairman Guan Resigns Amid Regulatory Probe (Bloomberg.com)


New China Life's Chairman Guan Resigns Amid Regulatory Probe (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- New China Life Insurance Co., part- owned by Zurich Financial Services AG, said Chairman Guan Guoliang quit amid a regulatory probe of alleged misuse of funds.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Ionia Sentinel-Standard)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Kewanee Star Courier)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Florida doctor pleads guilty in $1 billion fraud (Reuters via


Florida doctor pleads guilty in $1 billion fraud (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A Florida doctor pleaded guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud in connection with a life insurance scam that cost 28,000 investors nearly $1 billion, prosecutors said.

Heavy-handed music industry having to eat humble pie (Delta Democrat Times)
It's bad enough there are hordes of computer geeks out there who have nothing better to do than make life miserable for others. They spam, they scam, they spy, they transmit viruses, they hack, they steal passwords and they steal identities.

Taxes on a wrongful death settlement (Bankrate.com)
Dear Tax Talk, Earlier this year my mother, my sister and I received settlements for a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of my father. The sums are large enough (the total being well into the six figures) to potentially cause us all problems with the IRS.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Waynesboro Record


Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Waynesboro Record Herald)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Evening Times)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

New China Life Insurance chairman resigns amid probe (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
SHANGHAI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Guan Guoliang has resigned as chairman of New China Life Insurance, the country's fourth-largest insurer, amid an official investigation into the company's investment, state media said on Thursday.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (The Sun


Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (The Sun Chronicle)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Hornell Evening Tribune)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Evening Times)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Reform the court system (Northwest Herald) Much is written and


Reform the court system (Northwest Herald)
Much is written and spoken about court reform, judicial abuses, frivolous lawsuits, court costs, obscene settlements, etc. However, I rarely see solutions.

New jobs, homes boost two Banda Aceh families (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
By the time the airplane touches down, an hour late, the afternoon skies have faded to a smudge of purple cloud. In the outdoor waiting area, a dozen noses press against a wire fence, their voices burbling with excitement. "That's her plane! Mom! Mom!" cries one boy.

PRESIDENT FOR LIFE (The Telegraph)
You could love him or hate him, but there was no way you could ignore him if you had even a remote interest in Central Asia or the former Soviet Union.

A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Merrill Lynch Life and Its


A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Merrill Lynch Life and Its Affiliate, ML Life Insurance Company of New York (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
OLDWICK, N.J.----A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A and the issuer credit ratings of "a" of Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Company and ML Life Insurance Company of New York .

MIB Life Index Reports US Life Insurance Activity Declines 6.6% in November (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Application activity for individually underwritten life insurance sold by U.S. insurance companies declined -6.6% in November year-over-year, the ninth consecutive month of decreases in 2006, according to the MIB Life Index.

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Southwest Daily News) (ARA) -


Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

Life Insurance Company Sells New Orleans HQ (Commercial Property News)
Pan-American Life Insurance Co. has inked a sale-leaseback deal to sell its headquarters building, the 675,000-square-foot Pan-American Life Center (601 Poydras St.) in downtown New Orleans. The buyer is La Jolla, Calif.-based Equastone.

MIB Life Index Reports US Life Insurance Activity Declines 6.6% in November (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Application activity for individually underwritten life insurance sold by U.S. insurance companies declined -6.6% in November year-over-year, the ninth consecutive month of decreases in 2006, according to the MIB Life Index.

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Southwest Daily News) (ARA) -


Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

China Life A-Share IPO priced at 18.16-18.88 yuan (People's Daily)
China Life Insurance announced Monday that the price range for its domestic initial public offering (IPO) will be 18.16 to 18.88 yuan.

Survivors' Needs Should Be Priority With Life Insurance (Hartford Courant)
I know I'll receive a flood of reader mail whenever I write about hot-button issues such as Social Security. But I was not prepared for the avalanche from a recent column on the need for life insurance.

China Life I.P.O. Price Is in Low Range (New York Times)
The China Life Insurance Company set the price range in its $3.6 billion I.P.O. lower than expected, a move that is likely to ensure huge demand for the offer.

Senior Citizens Selling Their Life Insurance has Become Big Business


Senior Citizens Selling Their Life Insurance has Become Big Business (Senior Journal)
December 21, 2006 For several years there have been advertisers on SeniorJournal.com offering to purchase life insurance policies from senior citizens, but, this industry has now reached new heights, according to a recent article in the New York Times.

Trapper savored Christmas in a tepee (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Let me introduce you to Russell Osborne. This mountain man is worth knowing, and an introduction is particularly appropriate on this Dec. 24. Osborne kept a great journal during the nine years he spent as a trapper, and in it he describes a Christmas Day the likes of which none of us modern Utahns will ever see. The year was 1840. Osborne, who had embraced the trapper's life in 1834, was ...

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance


Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

China Life May Raise $3.62 Billion from Share Sale (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- China Life Insurance Co., the underwriter of half the nation's policies, may raise as much as 28.3 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) in a domestic stock offering.

China Life May Raise $3.62 Bln From Local Share Sale (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- China Life Insurance Co., the underwriter of half the nation's life insurance premiums, said it may raise as much as 28.3 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) in a domestic stock offer.

China Life May Raise $3.62 Billion From Domestic Share Sale (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- China Life Insurance Co., the nation's largest life insurer, said it may raise as much as 28.3 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) from its domestic share sale as the insurer set the price range.

Appeal of disability insurance grows (The Arizona Republic) Often, it's


Appeal of disability insurance grows (The Arizona Republic)
Often, it's one of the last safety nets people think about - after health, home and car insurance. After life, dental and maybe even pet insurance. Now, disability insurance is attracting new interest.

Insurance an essential lifesaver (Kansas City Star)
I know I ll get a flood of reader mail whenever I write about hot-button issues such as Social Security. But I wasn t prepared for the avalanche from an October column on the need for life insurance.

Tailor life insurance so it provides income (Baltimore Sun)
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Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Hope Star)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Retif, GA reach out to New Orleans (phillyburbs.com) FORT WASHINGTON


Retif, GA reach out to New Orleans (phillyburbs.com)
FORT WASHINGTON Sherri Retif will probably never forget the moment. I was on the phone and I heard one of my brothers yelling, "Get away from the window,' Retif said. And then the phone went dead.

Exxon fine for oil spill is slashed on appeal (Anchorage Daily News)
A federal appeals court has again slashed the punitive damages awarded to thousands of Alaskans who suffered the Exxon Valdez oil spill's effects, dropping Exxon Mobil Corp.'s penalty to $2.5 billion from a previous order of $4.5 billion.

Bank of India, Union Bank, Dai-Ichi sign MoU for life


Bank of India, Union Bank, Dai-Ichi sign MoU for life insurance venture (The Hindu)
Bank of India (BoI), Union Bank of India (UBI) and Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co on Thursday forged an alliance to form a new life insurance joint venture company.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Bastrop Daily Enterprise)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Allstate names new head of life insurance unit (Crane's Chicago Business)
(AP) -- Months after being passed over for the top job at Conseco Inc., James Hohmann, its president and chief operating officer, will join Allstate Corp. as president and chief executive of its life insurance and annuities unit on Jan. 1. Hohmann, 50, will be taking over Allstate Financial from ...

IDBI, Life Insurance Corp. of India form alliance (NDTV Profit)


IDBI, Life Insurance Corp. of India form alliance (NDTV Profit)
MUMBAI (Reuters) - State-run IDBI Ltd. on Thursday signed an agreement with Life Insurance Corp. of India (LIC) for joint financing of long-term projects, top officials of the two companies said.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Bank of India, Union Bank, Dai-Ichi sign MoU for life insurance venture (The Hindu)
Bank of India (BoI), Union Bank of India (UBI) and Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co on Thursday forged an alliance to form a new life insurance joint venture company.

Senior Citizens Selling Their Life Insurance has Become Big Business


Senior Citizens Selling Their Life Insurance has Become Big Business (Senior Journal)
December 21, 2006 For several years there have been advertisers on SeniorJournal.com offering to purchase life insurance policies from senior citizens, but, this industry has now reached new heights, according to a recent article in the New York Times.

EXILE PM TO VISIT TIBETAN GANDHIAN PROJECT IN SOUTH INDIA (Phayul)
NEW YORK, December 21, 2006--Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, will travel early next month to South India to make an assessment of one of his pet pilot projects: an eco-friendly farming initiative to serve as a model, showing all Tibetan settlements in India that it makes good economic sense to abandon the four-decade-old chemical farming practice ...

Nortel and Telef nica O2 Czech Republic Demonstrate Broadband Wireles Spectrum Potential (SYS-CON Media)
Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) and Telef nica O2 Czech Republic, the largest provider of wireless voice and data services in the Czech Republic, have teamed to show how operators can use broadband wireless spectrum more efficiently.

Some guidelines for estimating how much life insurance you need


Some guidelines for estimating how much life insurance you need (Boston Globe)
I know I'll get a flood of reader mail whenever I write about hot-button issues such as Social Security. But I wasn't prepared for the avalanche from an October column on the need for life insurance.

Does Batman need life insurance? (Orange County Register)
Does Batman need life insurance?

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Allstate names new head of life insurance unit (Crane's Chicago


Allstate names new head of life insurance unit (Crane's Chicago Business)
(AP) -- Months after being passed over for the top job at Conseco Inc., James Hohmann, its president and chief operating officer, will join Allstate Corp. as president and chief executive of its life insurance and annuities unit on Jan. 1. Hohmann, 50, will be taking over Allstate Financial from ...

Union Bank plans life insurance JV with BOI, Dai Ichi (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
MUMBAI, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Union Bank of India said on Wednesday it had decided to enter the life insurance business in a joint venture with Bank of India and Japan's Dai Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. A preliminary agreement for the joint venture would be signed on December 21, ...

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Hornell Evening Tribune)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Ernst & Young LLP Issues 2007 U.S. Industry Outlook for Life Insurance Industry (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----In 2007 the life insurance industry is looking forward to a year of continued good performance, opportunity and tough competition for the loyalty of a new generation of retiring consumers, according to Ernst & Young's Global Insurance Center.

Swaziland: Squatters Make Communities Out of Chaos (AllAfrica.com) Swaziland's civic


Swaziland: Squatters Make Communities Out of Chaos (AllAfrica.com)
Swaziland's civic and national authorities are tackling the growing blight of informal settlements with plans to make squatters the owners of their own properties, and allow them access to sanitary and other city services.

Kenya: A Race to Leave Informal Settlements Behind (AllAfrica.com)
Come the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF), to be held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi next month, many delegates will doubtless be seen running to and from various events. Some may also be running for an event, however: the 'Marathon for Basic Rights: Another World is Possible Even for Slum Dwellers'.

Verizon Wireless Awards Nortel an Expected US$2B Supply Deal (Presseportal)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey and Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Building Network for Mobile Multimedia and Data Growth Nortel(1) [NYSE/TSX: NT] and Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless service provider, have signed an ...

Financial Futures (Washington Post)
Washington Post columnist Martha Hamilton and employee benefits expert Martha Priddy Patterson were online to discuss how to make smart decisions while preparing for retirement.

China Life gets green light for Shanghai IPO (AFP via


China Life gets green light for Shanghai IPO (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China Life Insurance, the nation's largest insurer, has said it won official approval for its 1.5 billion share listing in Shanghai.

Late in Life, Finding a Bonanza in Life Insurance (New York Times)
Trading in life insurance policies held by wealthy seniors has quietly become a big business for investors.

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Pekin Times) (ARA) - If


Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) - AIG Life celebrates the inauguration of its Regional Headquarters at the DIFC (AME Info)
American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) - AIG Life, a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG), celebrated the inauguration of its Regional Middle East, Africa & South Asia headquarters at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) on December 16th 2006.

Life insurance is a necessity and now a bargain (Akron Beacon Journal)
I know I'll get a flood of reader mail whenever I write about hot-button issues such as Social Security. But I wasn't prepared for the avalanche from an October column on the need for life insurance.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Astros reach insurance settlement on Bagwell (Houston Chronicle) The Astros


Astros reach insurance settlement on Bagwell (Houston Chronicle)
The Astros reached a settlement Thursday with Connecticut General Life Insurance over a lawsuit filed against the company after it denied the club's claim to recoup a portion of Jeff Bagwell's salary from 2006. The amount of the settlement wasn't disclosed.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) - AIG Life celebrates the inauguration of its Regional Headquarters at the DIFC (AME Info)
American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) - AIG Life, a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG), celebrated the inauguration of its Regional Middle East, Africa & South Asia headquarters at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) on December 16th 2006.

Life insurance is a necessity and now a bargain (Akron Beacon Journal)
I know I'll get a flood of reader mail whenever I write about hot-button issues such as Social Security. But I wasn't prepared for the avalanche from an October column on the need for life insurance.

Survival in a land of absurd questions fueled by grassroots


Survival in a land of absurd questions fueled by grassroots ignorance (The Daily Star Lebannon)
"When everyone's asleep, Jerusalem is like a coffin," a young Palestinian muses to the nighttime streets. "It's depressing and beautiful at once. Even when you're being arrested by Israeli soldiers, the city smells of the sweetness of the Bible. When you're being walked to your cell, your footsteps are the ones the prophets took before you."

Ringside Observer: December '06 (Kingston Observer)
UPS FOLLOW-UP: In case you re wondering what happened to UPS driver David Cole after his tell all story about life with the package delivery behemoth, he was fired.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Wellsville


Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Genworth Financial Merges Three Life Insurance Companies Into Existing Genworth-named Companies (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Genworth Financial, Inc. announced today it will merge three of its life insurance companies into existing Genworth-named insurance companies.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (The Sun Chronicle)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (The Sun Chronicle)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Hornell Evening Tribune) (ARA) -


Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Hornell Evening Tribune)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

China Life Insurance Listing Approved (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
China's securities watchdog on Friday gave the go-ahead for the country's biggest life insurer to issue shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Ex-officer admits several scams (Dallas Morning News) For years, Frank


Ex-officer admits several scams (Dallas Morning News)
For years, Frank Salvador Bueno's nice clothes, fancy cars and exclusive addresses led people to trust the former Garland police officer's stories about amazing land deals, lucrative investments and life-changing legal settlements.

Millionaire will stay in touch (The Business EDP 24)
A Scottish multi-millionaire has pledged to continue his links with a Norfolk town following the filming of a new reality-TV programme. The Secret Millionaire, which was screened on Wednesday, showed Glasgow 'curry king' Charan Gill going to Thetford to experience life on the minimum wage.

Eaten out of house and home (Haaretz Daily)
Another disengagement is taking place in a few southern settlements. Unlike the first disengagement, in which residents were expelled from their homes, now residents remain in place while their homes vanish.

Bushfires claim first life (The Age)
Victoria's bushfires claimed their first life last night, when a man was run over by a fire tanker in Gippsland.

ING gets approval for life insurance operations in Henan, China


ING gets approval for life insurance operations in Henan, China (Market Watch)
AMSTERDAM (MarketWatch) -- Dutch bank and insurer ING Groep NV (ING) Thursday said its life insurance joint venture with Beijing Capital Group has received approval from Chinese regulators to set up branch operations in the province of Henan, China.

Bharti Ties-up With AXA For Non-life Insurance Biz (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Bharti Enterprises and French insurance major, AXA SA evinced interest to set up a mutual fund and a non-life insurance company jointly in India in the near future.

China Life's $3 bln Shanghai IPO approved (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
SHANGHAI, Dec 15 (Reuter) - China Life Insurance Co., the country's biggest life insurer, won regulatory approval on Friday to list in Shanghai with an initial public offer that is expected to raise over 25 billion yuan ($3.2 billion).

Phoenix Life Insurance goes live on WorkForce's EmpCenter (Computer Business Review)
Phoenix Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut has implemented workforce management firm WorkForce Softwares EmpCenter Online suite for 1,500 of its employees.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance


Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

ING gets approval for life insurance operations in Henan, China (Market Watch)
AMSTERDAM (MarketWatch) -- Dutch bank and insurer ING Groep NV (ING) Thursday said its life insurance joint venture with Beijing Capital Group has received approval from Chinese regulators to set up branch operations in the province of Henan, China.

Botswana's bushmen get Kalahari lands back (CNN.com) LOBATSE, Botswana (AP)


Botswana's bushmen get Kalahari lands back (CNN.com)
LOBATSE, Botswana (AP) -- Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that members of a tribe of hunter-gatherers were entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Court: Botswana Bushmen wrongly evicted (AP via Yahoo! News)
Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's Bushmen are entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a decision hailed as a victory for indigenous peoples.

Slum life: A tailor's tale from Nairobi's Kibera (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan shillings ($14) rent every month.

Prudential To Pay (Hartford Courant)
Life Insurance Firm To Pay $19 Million To Resolve Allegations Of Bid-Rigging Prudential Financial Inc., the second-largest U.S. life insurer, agreed Tuesday to pay $19 million to resolve allegations by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that it paid hidden fees to brokers in exchange for business.

China Life Insurance's A-Share Listing In Shanghai (Forbes) The insurance


China Life Insurance's A-Share Listing In Shanghai (Forbes)
The insurance company is planning a third share listing in Shanghai.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything!


Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

China Life Insurance's A-Share Listing In Shanghai (Forbes)
The insurance company is planning a third share listing in Shanghai.

TMone Provides Superior Lead Generation for State Farm Agents Seeking


TMone Provides Superior Lead Generation for State Farm Agents Seeking Clients in Auto, Home and Life Insurance (CRM Today)
When State Farm agent Jeff Weedin started looking for client leads for auto insurance policies, he found his prospects limited. He didn t have any files or a list from which to pull addresses.

SWS: Judges want life insurance and guns (Malaya)
WHILE the number of judges who feel poorly paid has decreased in the past 10 years, more are becoming concerned about their personal security, with a majority saying they need life insurance and a personal firearm, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said.

Tinker Bell, Pinochet And The Fairy Tale Miracle Of Chile


Tinker Bell, Pinochet And The Fairy Tale Miracle Of Chile (cmi santiago)
General Pinochet - who had me kicked out of Chile in June 1974 - in the too many following years embezzled tens of millions of dollars. He hid them - he thought - in 128 (one-hundred-and-twenty-eight) bank accounts, most of them in the internationally known Bank for Crooks & Spooks: the Riggs bank.

FEATURE-Slum life: a tailor's tale from Nairobi's Kibera (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (This story is one of a series issued on Dec. 11 looking at the spread of cities) By Marie-Louise Gumuchian KIBERA, Kenya, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or ...

Municipal Bond Antitrust Case Probed by Grand Jury (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutors investigating bid-rigging in the municipal bond market have brought their case to a federal grand jury in New York, a person with knowledge of the case said.

City expected to approve $6 million settlement (The Columbian)
Crippling injuries suffered by a 22-year-old French exchange student five years ago are likely to lead to the biggest personal injury settlement in Vancouver history.

Have Life Insurance? Maybe. Cellphone Coverage? Of Course. (New York


Have Life Insurance? Maybe. Cellphone Coverage? Of Course. (New York Times)
Cellphones, complex and small, often break or go missing. When does it pay to have insurance?

Read insurance policy's fine print (NorthJersey.com)
Rob Hammerling admits he's kind of an insurance nut. A former life insurance broker, Hammerling chose Chubb, a company regarded by many as the Cadillac of carriers for his homeowner's policy, and he signed up for just about every rider available.

150,000 hit by U-turn on life insurance (Guardian Unlimited)
One hundred and fifty thousand insurance buyers are in confusion after Gordon Brown this week shut down a heavily marketed plan offering tax relief on life premiums after just eight months. Buyers of "pension term assurance" (PTA) now face the bleak option of higher premiums or less cover.

Life insurance U-turn 'astonishing' (Guardian Unlimited)
The government pulled the plug on cheap life insurance last week, saying it would review rules that allow generous tax relief on pension term insurance.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance


Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Life Insurance Finance Association Conference Reinforces Industry Support for Consumer Rights (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----At the first Life Insurance Finance Association conference, held Wednesday, Nov. 29, participants reinforced the importance of reasonable regulation of the life insurance premium-finance industry to protect consumer rights.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Have Life Insurance? Maybe. Cellphone Coverage? Of Course. (New York Times)
Cellphones, complex and small, often break or go missing. When does it pay to have insurance?

Independent Appeal: Crushed: the dreams of a good life (Independent)


Independent Appeal: Crushed: the dreams of a good life (Independent)
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the soaring hopes and crashing disappointments of Gaza in the last 15 months than the experience of the Al Boh brothers.

Crash Victim Wins $11M In Settlements (WJXT News4Jax.com via Yahoo! News)
A Jacksonville mother confined to a wheelchair after a crash on the Northside about 11 years ago is set to receive $11 million in settlements.

Have Life Insurance? Maybe. Cellphone Coverage? Of Course. (New York


Have Life Insurance? Maybe. Cellphone Coverage? Of Course. (New York Times)
Cellphones, complex and small, often break or go missing. When does it pay to have insurance?

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Carmi Times)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Southwest Daily


Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Whole Life vs. Term Life (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News)
The two main forms of life insurance you should understand are whole life and term life. (It's also good to learn about universal and variable, which are variations of whole life insurance.)

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Evening Times)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

Catholic Charities agrees to multi-million dollar settlement (The Palm Beach


Catholic Charities agrees to multi-million dollar settlement (The Palm Beach Post)
WEST PALM BEACH - Catholic Charities, the charitable arm of the five-county Palm Beach Diocese, has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement with four families who sued over a fatal van crash last year.

BUSINESS BRIEFS (Asbury Park Press)
Life insurance and investment giant Prudential Financial Inc. on Tuesday announced that profit in 2007 should range from $6.60 to $6.80 per share, meeting Wall Street estimates. The company's shares rose to a 52-week high.

Despite title, Carter's book plants screed of Mideast discord (Chicago Sun-Times)
Whatever else one might have said about the presidency of Jimmy Carter, he was a statesman. As much as any international figure before or since, he took advantage of the opportunity of the day to advance peace between Israel and her neighbors.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Evening


Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Evening Times)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-12-07 11:03 GMT: Swiss Re buy of General Electric UK life insurance ops cleared by EU (Interactive Investor)
BRUSSELS (AFX) - The European Commission said it has cleared the proposed 465 mln stg acquisition by Swiss Reinsurance of General Electric Co's UK life insurance operations.

China Life to buy $4 billion power assets (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Dec 7 (Reuters) - China Life Insurance Co. , the country's top life insurer, will buy assets worth 32 billion yuan ($4 billion) in China Southern Power Grid, two company officials told Reuters on Thursday.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Southwest


Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.

ACE Approved to Establish Life Insurance Operation in Russia (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----The ACE Group of Companies announced today that it has received approval from the Federal Service for Insurance Supervision to underwrite life insurance in the Russian Federation.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Pekin Times)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Hope Star)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Firm settles charges over gift abuse (Los Angeles Times) Jefferies,


Firm settles charges over gift abuse (Los Angeles Times)
Jefferies, which spent lavishly on Fidelity traders, agrees to pay nearly $10 million.

Families find that working together is really work (NorthJersey.com)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Like many married couples who work together, Minneapolis TV personalities Frank Vascellaro, 44, and Amelia Santaniello, 41, have to grab any opportunity they can to catch up on their shared home life.

Bladen's natives far different from other tribes in the state (Bladen Journal)
It's unfortunate John Lawson never spent much time among the Indians of the Cape Fear Valley. Had he done so, we would have a better picture today of Bladen's earliest settlers.

Analysis: Israeli-PA cease-fire is fragile (UPI)
JERUSALEM, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The cease-fire in and around the Gaza Strip has been holding, more or less, but remains extremely fragile as low-intensity hostilities continue.

Kelowna man who illegally raised more than $4.2-million and exchanged


Kelowna man who illegally raised more than $4.2-million and exchanged securities for life insurance policies and other (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
A Kelowna man who sold and exchanged securities for life insurance policies and other companies' securities has been ordered out of the securities market and must pay $100,000 to the British Columbia Securities Commission for violating securities laws.

Life Insurance Clauses Determine Your Coverage (Investopedia)
Do you have a life insurance policy? How many times have you gone through your policy document? Once or maybe twice, right? And do these important clauses like incontestable clause, spendthrift clause or reinstatement clause mean anything to you?

A.M. Best No Longer Rates Union Security Life Insurance Company


A.M. Best No Longer Rates Union Security Life Insurance Company as a Result of Legal Entity Merger (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
OLDWICK, N.J.----A.M. Best Co. has withdrawn the financial strength rating of A and the issuer credit rating of "a" of Union Security Life Insurance Company and assigned it an NR-5 .

Kelowna man who illegally raised more than $4.2-million and exchanged securities for life insurance policies and other (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
A Kelowna man who sold and exchanged securities for life insurance policies and other companies' securities has been ordered out of the securities market and must pay $100,000 to the British Columbia Securities Commission for violating securities laws.

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance (Daily Clay County Advocate-Press)
(ARA) - If you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, or think you are paying exorbitant premiums because of your habit, it's time to start shopping around.

Read insurance policy's fine print (NorthJersey.com)
Rob Hammerling admits he's kind of an insurance nut. A former life insurance broker, Hammerling chose Chubb, a company regarded by many as the Cadillac of carriers for his homeowner's policy, and he signed up for just about every rider available.

Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance


Why Now is a Good Time to Consider Life Insurance (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Life insurance isn't a topic that is usually brought up at dinner time. No one likes to think about their death or the death of a family member. And no one thinks it could happen to them, but the reality is it could!

New Service Encourages UK Residents to Get Protected Following Concerns Over Insufficient Life Insurance (PR Web)
Many UK individuals discover when it's too late that their partner's life insurance cover was insufficient. They are often left with personal debt liabilities that are beyond their limits. A new service is being offered to UK residents so they can now have over one hundred quotes done online. (PRWeb Dec 3, 2006) Post Comment:Trackback URL:

China to keep 50 percent cap on foreign stake in life insurance joint venture (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China is unlikely to lift the 50 percent cap on foreign investment in life insurance joint ventures "in the foreseeable future", state media cited the industry regulator as saying.

The Use of Force / Four shootings and investigations (San


The Use of Force / Four shootings and investigations (San Francisco Chronicle)
Case: Johnie Williams Date: July 8, 1997 Summary: Motorcycle Officer Leslie Adams sees car with expired registration tag, signals for driver to stop, gives chase when Williams races away. High-speed chase through Mission District ends when rush-...

The Use of Force / When officers resort to gunfire (San Francisco Chronicle)
As San Francisco police Officer Gregory Breslin told it, the white Mustang sped straight at him, tires squealing. He feared he would die right there, in the driveway of an apartment complex, as he tried to block the car's path. He had no choice, he...

Arrow from the heartland wounds corporate America (Chicago Tribune)
University of Iowa professor's study exposed a scandal in the granting of stock options to executives Erik Lie is teaching the theoretical ins and outs of debt workouts and Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a class of University of Iowa undergraduates.

Term Life Insurance Prices Drop by Half (NPR) With economic


Term Life Insurance Prices Drop by Half (NPR)
With economic inflation, most prices tend to go up, not down. But there are always exceptions, including term life insurance. It now costs 50 percent less than it did 10 years ago.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!