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		<title>Don’t Let This Happen to Your Client</title>
		<link>http://lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/don%e2%80%99t-let-this-happen-to-your-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a national television celebrity sued in court saying he was unaware how selling his life insurance policy in the secondary market would affect him in the future. He sold a total of $15m insurance policy to a life settlement provider for $1.4m.  The celebrity said he was misled as to how the sale affected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=274&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Senate Passes Settlement Legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington state Senate adopted legislation to regulate the life settlement market. The bill included a provision requiring carriers to let people know that a life settlement, along with lapsing or surrendering, are options for exiting unwanted policies. SB 5195, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate recently, would regulate life settlements for the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=277&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Your Tongue is Telling You About Your Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your body may be trying to tell you something if your tongue gets bumpy, changes color, or worse. From MSN Health &#38; Fitness You may not give your tongue much thought, but chances are your doctor does. “Telling a patient to stick out their tongue is a valid way to start examining someone,” says Dr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=279&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying on Target with the Life Settlement Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seasons Change! The Life Settlement Market is thawing! Winter is ending and spring will be here soon! In November many providers were looking for capital.  Many of them only had established credit lines available, and they were nearing capacity.  One provider shared they were actively prospecting for capital for the first time in six or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=245&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Ashar Team in supporting TAKES STEPS for Crohn’s &amp; Colitis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CCFA’s national evening walk and celebration and the nation’s largest event dedicated to finding cures for digestive diseases. One in every 200 people suffers daily with digestive diseases. For those living with these chronic diseases, life is a roller coaster of active and remitting disease. However, the opportunity to make life more manageable for patients [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=253&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed New York&#8217;s Life Settlement Legislative Changes</title>
		<link>http://lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/proposed-new-york-life-settlement-legislative-changes-for-life-settlements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life Settlement legislation changes continue to take effect is specific states, as we have been reporting in previous enewsletters. In this edition we provide you with a PROPOSED summary for the legislative changes for the state of New York. Proposed New York legislative changes summary: Viatical Broker Licensing License may be issued to individuals, firms, associations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=256&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street and Life Settlements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Bowen and Jon Mendelsohn The Life Settlement Market is not immune to the volatility of Wall Street. Many of the financial institutions distressed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal are active purchasers of life insurance policies in the Secondary Market. This directly affects the amount of capital institutions allocate to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=206&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 ways stores trick you into spending</title>
		<link>http://lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/15-ways-stores-trick-you-into-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Simple Dollar Don&#8217;t succumb to retailers&#8217; simple ploys. Here&#8217;s how they get you to buy &#8212; and 10 ways to fight back. Ever notice how you can go to a store to pick up just one thing and then, by the time you get to the check stand, you have five or six things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=235&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Legislative Changes Summary Outline</title>
		<link>http://lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/ohio-legislative-changes-summary-outline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Effective September 9, 2008 &#8211; 1) Outlines provisions of premium finance agreements: a) If premium financing is used in connection with a life insurance policy, and the premium finance company fails to provide notice of its financing to the insurer, the premium finance agreement is unenforceable as a matter of public policy. 2) Life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=211&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Reaction to Adjustments in Medical Underwriting Attracts New Institutional Capital</title>
		<link>http://lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/market-reaction-to-adjustments-in-medical-underwriting-attracts-new-institutional-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Bowen and Jon Mendelsohn The life settlement industry is experiencing an adjustment in medical underwriting (life expectancies). The largest underwriting company, 21st Services, announced as of September 16, 2008 they would increase their mortality tables by 20%-30%. This is the largest adjustment in industry history, and caused many providers to reassess their current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifesettlementsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4443084&amp;post=159&amp;subd=lifesettlementsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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