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<text id=91TT1993>
<title>
Sep. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Insurance
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 57
Business Notes
INSURANCE
Finally, Some Good News
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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