Life Settlement News

The Life Insurance Finance Association applauds the adopted amendments to The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Life Settlements Model Act, which was adopted unanimously, reflecting the collaboration of all parties.

The Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) today renewed its objections to the recent amendments to the NAIC Viatical Settlement Model Act, after it was revealed that both the primary author of the model and its key supporter, the American Council of Life Insurance (ACLI), knew that the model act failed to address the problem of stranger originated life insurance (STOLI). LISA has repeatedly raised concerns about the highly unorthodox process and closed-door tactics which were used to develop and adopt the amendments and has held firm that the model does not stop what the NAIC has already identified as the improper manufacturing of life insurance.

Genstar Capital, LLC and Boston Ventures announced today a majority investment in 21st Services, in partnership with management. The Minneapolis, Minnesota based Company is a leading provider of mission critical, life expectancy information that is currently used in the life settlement industry, the secondary market for life insurance, and with new applications planned to be launched in coming years.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted amendments to its Viatical Settlements Model Act. “This action was taken despite the fact that the model was poorly drafted, did not meet the stated objectives of the regulators and was expedited without having fully considering the issues raised by all industry sectors,” according to Scott J. Cipinko, executive director of the Life Insurance Finance Association (LIFA).
In addition, the adopted changes do not recognize how the life insurance industry and the secondary markets actually operate. “This is just unsettling. The rights of the consumers were not actually considered, and the changes will impair the rights of many life insurance consumers that the Model Act was aimed at protecting,” continued Cipinko.

Life-Exchange, Inc., (Pink Sheets:LFXG) the nation’s leading trading platform for the life settlement industry, announced today that their system has been successful in preventing the first attempted abuse of the electronic life settlement market. Three weeks ago it was discovered that a member broker had attempted to circumvent the exchange and simultaneously defraud their client by falsifying the offer amount. Due to the cooperation of Advanced Life Settlements Management (Advanced LSM), the first European member to join Life-Exchange, and other exchange members the abuse was quickly detected and prevented.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today adopted amendments to the Viatical Settlements Model Act during the Association’s Summer National Meeting in San Francisco.

An Association for Advanced Life Underwriting official would like to see regulators at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners change the NAIC’s proposed life settlements model revision.

Members of the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) are “prepared to fight” action taken at the just concluded National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) winter meeting in San Antonio.

The Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today adopted highly debated amendments to the Viatical Settlements Model Regulation during the Association’s Winter National Meeting in San Antonio.