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- BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesINSURANCEFinally, Some Good News
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- No industry has been battered as badly this year as insurance.
- The alarming jump in failures -- 17 in 1991 so far -- has enraged
- policyholders and angered Congress. But last week the industry
- had some good news for a change: a private insurance group
- announced a $1 billion plan that will guarantee the full value of
- virtually all 372,000 policyholders of Executive Life, the doomed
- California insurer that was seized by the state last April.
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- The agreement, largest of its kind to date, requires 2,200
- insurers to provide the funds needed to restore the full value
- of policies and annuities held by customers of Executive Life,
- up to $100,000. About 95% of Executive's policyholders fall into
- that category. Those with policies valued above $100,000 will
- receive 81 cents on the dollar. In separate talks, California
- regulators are trying to persuade a French consortium interested
- in buying parts of Executive Life to come up with the remaining
- 19 cents. If the French agree, customers of the failed insurer
- would not lose a cent.
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