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National Life seeks 90-day extension

By Ted P. Torres | May 13, 2014 - 12:00am

The National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) is seeking a 90-day extension to Aug. 15, 2014, from the May 15 deadline to give more time for the potential investor to conduct due diligence.

Banking

NLIC policyholders want more IG seats

January 28, 2014 - 12:00am

The embattled policyholders of the shuttered National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) are asking the Insurance Commission (IC) to increase their seats in the interim governance board (IG Board) from two to four.

Banking

Insurance, pre-need scam: A public-private partnership

By AT GROUND LEVEL | By Satur C. Ocampo | August 31, 2013 - 12:00am

Last week’s column discussed three parallels between the much-condemned pork-barrel scam and the unjust/unfair treatment, via varied schemes, by certain insurance and pre-need companies of their policy/plan...

Opinion

Parallels: Pork barrel, insurance, pre-need scams

By AT GROUND LEVEL | By Satur C. Ocampo | August 24, 2013 - 12:00am

This column’s August 17 piece (“Insurance Commission remiss in regulating pre-need firms”) has elicited more reader reactions.

Opinion

Insurance Commission remiss in regulating pre-need firms

By AT GROUND LEVEL | By Satur C. Ocampo | August 17, 2013 - 12:00am

Last April 20 and 27, I wrote about how Pryce Plans, Inc. and its president, Salvador P. Escano, treated me over the lump-sum payment of my modest (P300,000) pension plan that the company was obligated to hand over...

Opinion

Deadline for NLIC rehab plan extended

By Ted P. Torres | May 7, 2013 - 12:00am

The Insurance Commission (IC) has extended indefinitely the deadline for the submission of a final rehabilitation plan for suspended National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) to allow all stakeholders sufficient time to...

Banking

Nat’l Life mulls two rehab proposals

By Ted P. Torres | April 25, 2013 - 12:00am

The fate of National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) is now in the hands of policyholders and premium deposit fund (PDF) owners, who have to choose between two “rehabilitation” plans.

Business

NLIC rehab plan to ‘equitize’ policies, PDF

By Ted P. Torres | March 12, 2013 - 12:00am

The National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) is expected to submit this week its official rehabilitation plan to the Insurance Commission (IC) amid demands from agents and policyholders for a public consultation prior...

Banking

IC orders Nat’l Life to submit rehab plan

By Ted P. Torres | March 1, 2013 - 12:00am

The Insurance Commission (IC) has ordered National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC) to submit its latest rehabilitation plan, the fourth version since the insurer was placed under conservatorship in 2010.

Business

National Life seeks effective support for rehab plan

December 17, 2012 - 12:00am

The National Life Insurance Co. (NLIC), a 79-year old Filipino business which since 2006 has been under a series of conservators appointed by the Insurance Commission (IC), was recently granted until Jan. 31, 2013...

Business