Archive for January, 2000

IN QUEST FOR GROWTH, INSURANCE FIRMS REORGANIZE< TREND IS TO CHANGE OWNERSHIP FROM POLICYHOLDERS TO STOCKHOLDERS

A week from tomorrow, a handful of people will gather on the first floor of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. headquarters in lower Manhattan.“It’ll be mostly auditors who are there to certify the final count,” said Kevin Foley, a Met Life spokesman. For 10 million policyholders, including 229,000 in Virginia, Feb. 7 is the deadline […]

NY LIFE SAID TO QUIT KOREA TAKEOVER TALKS

Attempts to sell South Korea’s crippled Kookmin Life Insurance Co. to New York Life Insurance Co. have collapsed.The government agreed in principle last summer to sell 51 percent of Kookmin Life to New York Life and 16 percent to the International Finance Corp., the private sector arm of the World Bank. The deal apparently unraveled […]

Rival’s windfall may alter AUL plans, Policyholders may rebuff ‘mutual holding’ plan after seeing Indianapolis Life’s payout.

Now that Indianapolis Life Insurance Co. policyholders stand to receive a financial windfall under a new plan to take the company public, their counterparts at American United Life Insurance might demand compensation as well, an insurance industry expert said. Indianapolis Life and AUL this week called off their plan to merge, and Indianapolis Life instead […]