Cristina Fernández de Kirchner fue diagnosticada con cáncer a lo que se le obligó ser sometida a una operación para erradicar definitivamente la dolencia – y resulta que nunca tuvo cáncer!
Este tipo de ‘falso positivo’ se da en alrededor del 2% de los casos…y esta vez la suerte estuvo a su lado.
REGULATORS BACK $20 MILLION FINE AGAINST MET LIFE
The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) March 7, 1994 | SCOTT MAXWELL – Associated Press Issuing a warning to the nation’s insurance companies, state insurance commissioners have endorsed a $20 million fine for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Met Life, the country’s largest life insurer, is accused of standing by as sales agents deceived tens of thousands of customers.
The company did nothing to stop its agents from misrepresenting life insurance plans as retirement plans, the commissioners said. Retirement plans are fully refundable; life insurance policies are not.
“What they did was totally unacceptable, a horrendous act,” Florida Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher said at the commissioners’ meeting here Sunday.
Met Life disagrees with the size of the proposed fine. metlifedentalnow.net met life dental
“We think $20 million would be excessive in light of the changes we have made and our offers to prevent any customer from losing a dime,” spokesman Charles Sahner says in today’s New York Times.
Met Life has proposed refunding $76 million to up to 60,000 customers nationwide. Any fine would be in addition to mandatory restitution.
Met Life has paid a total of $338,000 in fines in the previous 17 years, the Times said.
The rest of the nation’s life insurance companies should take heed, Gallagher said, calling the fine “a major, across-the-bow warning that it’s time for them to clean up their act.” The panel of 55 members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners agreed that Met Life should divide $12.5 million in fines among at least 40 state governments, Gallagher said.
The other $7.5 million in fines could be used to increase customer refunds or monitor compliance; the group had not yet decided, he said. see here met life dental
However, the NAIC lacks the authority to impose fines. If Met Life doesn’t agree to the proposal, states are free to each fine the company, Gallagher said.
It could take months to work out a final agreement, he said.
Also Sunday, a report on a Florida investigation into Met Life’s sales practices was released.
The report said Met executives did nothing to make sure customers purchased the best policy for their needs, although even a casual review should have raised a warning flag.
“Imagine the management of a national brokerage firm ignoring information that every account representative in a large office had sold only one stock, and no other stocks, to every customer of that office,” it said.
“Company executives and management chose not to correct this situation out of ignorance, incompetence or greed,” Gallagher said.
Last year, the New York-based company conducted its own investigation of sales practices in its Tampa, Fla., office, then fired several executives and refunded $12 million to customers.
SCOTT MAXWELL – Associated Press
Una gran noticia para la gente de Argentina y su presidenta!
