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Pennsylvania regulatory authorities, seizures Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company of Radnor, Pennsylvania, in a move that blocks 100000 customers their money from the company.
This is the first of a major blackout life insurance to more than 16 months, experts say, and just as the industry has tried to restore public confidence after the failure of several large companies. Realty Investment debt
Many life insurers are still suffering from heavy investments in real estate professional languishing. But few companies, regulators said, have almost the same level of exposure to real estate as Fidelity Mutual.
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department, the company’s management late Friday and ordered a moratorium on the cancellation policy indefinitely and loans to customers after a sudden rush on heritage, “said Ronald Chronister, PA Deputy Commissioner. The resumption has not been good, until yesterday.
The company is to continue to pay pensions and death benefits. But it is unclear what will happen, that customers savings to the State to develop a plan for merger, restructuring or liquidation of the company. “We can not guarantee that all take their money,” said Chronister.
The action on Friday froze about $ 30 million of insurance which in 1290 had asked the company since mid-October, the insurance division said. The company had already received requests for cash for a total of nearly $ 3 million during the week since March, with the rush on capital increased to $ 14.8 million during the last week of October. Public ‘early forget ”
Joseph M. Belth, professor of insurance at Indiana University, said Fidelity Mutual omission was a setback for the company was hoping public concerns about their ability to pay - and the impact on withdrawals — was gone.
“I think it is a great trauma for the industry,” said Belth. “People have begun to forget.”
Last year, violations of mutual benefit Life Insurance Company in New Jersey and the Executive Life and the first capital of life insurance in California companiesin raised concerns of the industry. Beiderseitigen benefits Life, the largest life insurance increasingly doomed to failure, had more than 700000 customers.
Mr. Belth said that its examination of Fidelity Mutual last spring showed that the end of 1991 nearly 43 percent of the portfolio in mortgage loans and real estate. Until the end of 1991, Fidelity Mutual problem mortgages increased by $ 146.5 million, or 78 percent of surplus capital, which he went.
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