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- Appeals Court, Congress Say Indexed Annuities Are Not Securities
- Senate Rejects Permanent Estate Tax Repeal
- SEC Proposes Changes to 12b-1 Fees
- HHS Announces Steps to Establish Exchanges
- SEC, GAO Issue Reports on Life Settlements
- NCOIL Holds Its Summer Meeting in Boston
- Company Declination Letter Required for National High-Risk Pool
- Estate Tax Amendment Complicates Small Business Jobs Bill Debate
- SECA, Other Tax Issues in Senate Small Business Jobs Bill
- Employer Health Action Plan Now Available
- NCOIL Holds Summer Meeting
- NAIFA War Chest Donations Now Accepted Online
- Financial Services Reform Bill Headed for Final Passage
- Senate Subchapter S Tax Hike Set Aside While Senate Grapples with Jobs, Tax Law Extenders and Unemployment Benefits (H.R. 4213)
- Congress/Obama Finalize Pension Funding Relief Bill
- Members-Only Free Webinar for July Focuses on Advocacy
- Sub S Corporations Targeted for Proposed Tax Hit
- House and Senate Conferees Begin to Meet on Financial Regulatory Reform Legislation
- Tweaks to the CLASS Program Considered
- Senate H.R. 4213 Debate Puts Taxes, COBRA Subsidies in Play
- NAIFA Participates in Annuities Summit
- NAIFA Analysis of Senate’s Financial Services Overhaul Legislation
- McCarran-Ferguson Act Protection Remains Intact—For Now
- GOP Offers Bill to Repeal New Health Law as Implementation Continues
- House Approves Extenders, Pension Funding Relief Legislation
- NAIFA Opposes Stranger-Originated Annuities in NAIC Testimony
- Health Law Implementation Begins
- NAIFA and Industry Groups Comment on HHS Interim Final Rule on Web Portal for Consumers
- Bill Filed to Repeal Expanded 1099 Reporting
- Additional Health Insurance Reform Sought in Financial Services Bill
- Coalition Hosts Invitation-Only Fly-In
- Financial Services Regulatory Reform Heads to Senate Floor
- Deficit Reduction Commission Begins Examination of Federal Tax and Spending Programs
- NAIFA Supports New Annuity Suitability Rule
- Action Pending on Estate Tax, COBRA Subsidies, Pensions and Other Tax, Budget Issues
- NAIFA, NAIFA-NYS Continue Work on Commission Disclosure Regulation
- NAIFA Senior Vice President Bill Anderson to Be Featured at NAIC/NIPR E-Regulation Conference
- What You & Your Clients Need to Know about the New Health Law
- Deficit Reduction Commission Takes Shape
- NAIC Discusses Health Care, Annuity Suitability, and Other Key Issues at Spring Meeting
- IFAPAC to Host Third Webinar on the “How Tos” of Fundraising
- NAIFA President-Elect Terry Headley Discusses Regulatory Reform with the Wealth Channel
- Annuity Tax Added to the Health Reform Debate
- NCOIL Holds Annual Spring Meeting
- NAIFA President Currey on Financial Services Reform
- NAIFA Issues GovAlert to Oppose Kohl Amendment to Over Regulate “Financial Planning”
- NAIFA Applauds House Passage of Agent Licensing Reform Bill
- Proposed Health Insurance Surtax on Unearned Income – Impact on Life Insurance?
- NIPR Announces Its 100 Millionth Licensing Transaction
- Health Insurance Antitrust Immunity Repealed by U.S. House of Representatives
- Statutory Pay-Go Now Law
- Producer Compensation Disclosure Moves Forward in New York
- Tax Reform Debate Kicks Off With Bipartisan Tax Reform Plan
- Health Summit Leaves No Clear Path for Enactment
- Obama Health Care Proposal Recommends Hospital Insurance Tax on Annuity Income
- Deficit Reduction Commission Created by President Obama
- CFPA May Hold Jurisdiction Over Retirement Plan Service Providers
- Budget Proposal Puts Restrictions on Business Use of Life Insurance, Internal Value of Variable Life Insurance and Annuities
- DOL Issues New Proposed Investment Advice Regulations
- NAIFA President Responds to New York Times’ Report on Standards of Care
- NAIFA’s Bill Anderson to Speak on NCOIL Panel Regarding Annuity Suitability
- 170 Association Leaders Meet in Las Vegas to Scratch Their Advocacy Itch
- Did you miss the NAIFA webinar “New Health and LTC Regulations - Are You (and Your Clients) Compliant?” on February 25? Did you know you can find the entire presentation on NAIFA’s website?
- State of the Union Address Stresses Deficit Reduction, Jobs Creation
- Health Reform on Life Support, but Refuses to Die
- Senate Approves Statutory Pay-Go Rule
- NAIC Picks 2010 Committee Leaders
- Joint Committee Releases Updated Tax Expenditure Report
- New Jersey Enacts Producer “Quality Assurance” Law
- NAIFA Government Relations: Wins and Accomplishments Through 2010
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