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Equitable Holdings reported mixed 2025 financial results, posting a full-year loss but returning to profitability in the final quarter.

Equitable Holdings reported mixed 2025 financial results, posting a full-year loss but returning to profitability in the final quarter.

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April 26– Apr. 26– As Miguel Cabrera fights to reduce his child support payments to an ex-mistress, the woman’s lawyer is seeking to hold him in contempt, claiming the Detroit Tigers MVP has disobeyed a court order involving their two children. –Pay her $89,581 in back child support in full by May 1, or over time. –Buy the children unblocked, annual passes to Walt Disney…

April 26– Apr. 26– Personal turmoil aside, Miguel Cabrera’s affair with a Florida woman will end up costing him at least $7 million in child support– that is, if a judge’s order sticks. Cabrera is contesting a Florida judge’s $20,000- a-month child support order, calling it “grossly inflated” and a “windfall” for the mother, whom he has long portrayed as a “gold-digger”…

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera, who for five years led a double-life with a mistress in Florida and fathered two children with her, has been ordered to provide those children with the same lifestyle and opportunities enjoyed by the children from his marriage. Cabrera, who makes $30 million a year and used to fly Rodriguez and their children around the country to…

The best thing an insurance agent can do is generate their own leads, but knowing where to start and what you need to make it possible can be scary and confusing. But you can generate your own leads, and the specific set of tools that you need, once you have them, will cost you more time than it will money.

April 19– Apr. 19– Since his playing days ended 12 years ago, Colin Young had settled into a comfortable retirement. The former Pentucket High and Fordham University baseball star, who went on to enjoy a nine-year professional career in the minors, was now spending his days working as an insurance salesman in Texas. Young got a call from the Padres the next day while…
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Within the last decade, the industry has striven to make e-delivery the standard. Protective Life began offering it in 2008, with most other insurers quickly following suit. But customers and demanding more efficiency and services all the time. Here are a few tips to improve e-delivery.

Regulation 187 is set to go into effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity transactions and February 1, 2020, for life insurance transactions in the state of New York. After researching the regulation and having conversations with staff from the New York State Department of Financial Services and various carrier partners, Valmark concluded that it is ready to work…
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The appraisal of remaining term insurance as potential life settlement opportunities is an emerging trend. Concurrently, many of the agents who could have life settlement opportunities are unaware of life settlement due to a lack of education from their upline.

Kemper Corporation announced that Cheryl Kingsfield Neal has joined the company as President of Kemper Life, effective today. Prior to that, she held multiple roles at Liberty Mutual Insurance including Executive Vice President and General Manager of Liberty Mutual Benefits, and President of Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston.

From the day Coral Gables nurse Debra Clark was discovered strangled, beaten and shot inside her townhome, police had focused on one chief suspect: Allen Bregman, her older, married lover. Bregman, who was convicted Friday, immediately filed a life insurance claim on Clark.

U.S. life insurance application activity slowed down in March, largely because young people did not buy. Overall activity fell 4.9% year over year, according to the MIB Life Index. Part of the decline is attributable to March 2018 being such a good month, MIB explained.

Entrepreneur Greg Lindberg was indicted last week in what federal prosecutors said was a plot to bribe state insurance commissioner Mike Causey. Days later, Lindberg-owned Global Bankers Insurance Group said it is pursuing buyers for its U.S. life insurance companies.

Lawyers for a Montreal man convicted of stabbing a police officer at an airport in Flint, Michigan, have asked the judge to sentence him to 25 years in prison. Amor Ftouhi was convicted in November on several charges in the June 2017 attack. He could face life in prison, but in a Thursday court filing, his attorneys asked that he be sentenced to 25 years and that he should spend that time in solitary confinement.

(FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 11, 2019) – The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) and the National Association…

AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of B++ and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ bbb+” of Colorado Bankers Life Insurance Company. Concurrently, AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the FSR of B and the Long-Term ICR of“ bb+” of Bankers Life Insurance Company. CBL and BLIC are…