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Bush Signs Bailout Bill That Includes Mental Health Parity

10/3/2008
BY ALLISON BELL

President Bush today signed a bailout bill that includes mental health parity legislation....Read article

Aflac Ends Stock Repurchase Program

10/3/2008

Aflac Inc. says it is taking back about $142 million it had allocated for buying company stock....Read article

SOA Looks At Stock-Based Guarantees

10/3/2008

The Society of Actuaries has organized a conference on equity-based insurance guarantees....Read article

AIG Plans To Sell Domestic Life Operations

10/3/2008
BY ALLISON BELL

American International Group Inc. says it may sell North American life subsidiaries such as American General, VALIC and SunAmerica and focus mainly on property-casualty operations....Read article

Waxman Invites Greenberg To Testify - Updated

10/2/2008

Maurice Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., is one of the individuals who was invited to testify Oct. 7 before the House Oversight Committee....Read article

Fed: AIG Insurance Subs Can Tap Credit Line

10/2/2008
BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL

American International Group Inc. has authority from the Federal Reserve Board to use the agency’s credit facility to provide liquidity for its insurance operating subsidiaries, the Fed says....Read article

Paulson Plan Hits Turbulence

9/23/2008

Congressional leaders are raising questions about efforts by the Bush administration to hurry a $700 billion rescue plan bill through Congress....Read article

NAFA Exec Lobbies Against Rule Change

10/2/2008

The National Association of Fixed Annuities is continuing to battle against a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission effort to classify indexed annuities as securities....Read article

Birnbaum Calls Paulson Comments Orwellian

9/23/2008
BY JIM CONNOLLY

A consumer advocate is blasting efforts by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to blame state regulators for the events that led to the takeover of American International Group Inc....Read article

Paulson Calls For Federal Insurance Oversight

9/23/2008
BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL

While testifying on the federal institution rescue plan, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today repeated calls for creation of a federal insurance regulatory system....Read article