Trevor Thomas

• Mass. Man Charged with Life Settlement Fraud

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 24, 2011

  A Massachusetts man has been charged in federal court with mail and wire fraud involving sales of purported life settlements over six years.

• CII: Ready to Grow?

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 21, 2011

  Critical illness insurance (CII) has significant prospects for growth, says Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance (AACIII), Westlake Village, Calif.

• Spreading the Poverty

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 21, 2011

  I recently read and heard some awful bunkum about the need to slash the Federal deficit. It did not come, as it usually does, from conservatives.

• LIMRA: VAs Sizzled

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 17, 2011

  Strong variable annuity sales helped push total U.S. individual annuity sales higher in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to LIMRA.

• FINRA Fines Units for Privacy Violation

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 17, 2011

  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has imposed fines on two insurer affiliates in connection with allegations that they failed to protect customer information.

• MetLife, Allianz Develop Saver Taxonomies

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 17, 2011

  Two studies by different life insurance companies come to strikingly similar conclusions about diverse views on retirement of older Americans.

• Kehrer-LIMRA Optimistic About Bank Annuity Sales

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 16, 2011

  Rising sales of variable annuities could make 2011 a better year for annuity sales in banks, according to Kehrer-LIMRA.

• NAIC Panel Sets Life Settlement Goals

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 15, 2011

  The Life Insurance and Annuities Committee at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has added life settlement items to a description of its charges for 2011.

• California Jury Awards $4 Million in DI Case

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 8, 2011

  A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $4.2 million in damages to a disability insurance policyholder who said her insurance company had unreasonably terminated her benefits.

• Wall Street's Golden Goose

  By Trevor Thomas  |  February 7, 2011

  The final report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) on the causes of the economic catastrophe that struck in 2008 was released Jan. 26.