Annuity News & Articles

• Lawsuit To Stop Investment Scam
  ag.ca.gov, Aug 19, 2005
  Seniors Into Using Retirement Assets To Buy Annuities
  
  
• Department of Insurance Takes Tough Stand
  ohioinsurance.gov, Aug 19, 2005
  Covington Releases Top10 Fraud List at Insurance Fraud
  
  
• Why Is This Medication Prescribed
  fda.gov, Aug 10, 2005
  Rofecoxib Is Used To Relieve The Pain
  
  
• New ERISA Council member to advise government on annuity issues
  Press Release, Mar 15, 2005
  U.S. Secretary of Labor Appoints Richard Landsberg to the 2005 ERISA Advisory Council
  
  
• American Express liable for not supervising annuity brokers
  Press Release, Feb 22, 2005
  NASD Arbitration Panel Finds American Express Financial Advisors Liable and Orders Full Restitution to Investors Pat and Francois Loth
  
  
• Local attorney indicted by federal grand jury on tax charges
  usDOJ, Nov 04, 2004
  The conduct at issue occurred from 1988 through 1999. If convicted of the charges, Ponds faces a potential sentence in excess of 35 years of incarceration.
  
  
• OTR Issues Advisory on Survivor Benefits
  DOC, Nov 01, 2004
  Pensions, military retirement pay, and annuity income in excess of $3,000.00 are subject to District income tax. There is no limitation on survivor benefits. All of survi
  
  
• 2000 Insurance Complaint Ratios Released
  State of IL, Nov 01, 2004
  This complaint total represents a three percent increase over the 1999 total of 14,867 cases.
  
  
• Insurance Companies Settle Improper Trading Case
  State of NY, Nov 01, 2004
  Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a settlement with two insurance companies alleged to have allowed improper trading of variable annuities sold as retirement
  
  
• Department Confirms 1.4 percent Fixed Annuity Dividend for WRS Annuitants
  State of WI, Nov 01, 2004
  Governor Doyle signed legislation today paving the way for the Department of Employee Trust Funds to pay a 1.4% fixed annuity dividend to Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS
  
  
• SEC Brings First Enforcement Action Against Insurance Companies for Permitting Market Timing of Mutual Funds
  SEC, Nov 01, 2004
  the company to which Conseco sold its variable annuity business in 2002, Inviva, Inc., and its subsidiary Jefferson National Life Insurance Company.
  
  
• California Leads Securities Regulators Crackdown on Promissory Note Fraud
  State of CA, Nov 01, 2004
  The California Department of Corporations today announced it has issued a total of 433 orders for the illegal and fraudulent offer and sale of securities in connection wi
  
  
• Railroad Retirement Annuity Estimates to be Available Online
  rrb, Nov 01, 2004
  The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board announced that railroad employees can now get estimates of their future annuities over the Internet.
  
  
• Armed Services Committee Improves Veterans Survivor Benefit Plan
  house.gov, Nov 01, 2004
  Survivor Benefits Legislation Added to Defense Bill, Eliminates “Widow’s Tax”
  
  
• Why Haven't Price-Level Indexed Annuities Taken The Financial World By Storm
  US Department of Treasury, Oct 07, 2004
  It is particularly gratifying to have the opportunity to speak to representatives of and experts about an industry that will be at the leading edge in creating solutions
  
  
• New Orleans Hospital Corporation Agrees To Guarantee Pensions
  DOL, Oct 07, 2004
  New Orleans Hospital Corporation Agrees To Guarantee Pensions
  
  
• Maine Woman Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements Related To Health Care Matters
  United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana, Oct 07, 2004
  Maine Woman Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements Related To Health Care Matters
  
  
• Committee Acts to Protect Charitable Giving
  US House of Representatives, Oct 07, 2004
  H.R 1902, the Charitable Donation Antitrust Immunity Act of 1997, an amendment to a two-year-old law intended to protect the nation's charities from lawsuits
  
  
• Department of Employee Trust Funds Announces Annuity Dividend and Variable Adjustment for Retirees
  Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds, Oct 07, 2004
  Announces Annuity Dividend and Variable Adjustment for Retirees
  
  

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