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Transamerica Life Insurance Review

A customer advancement accumulation says insurers may be adopting ante unfairly on some accepted activity allowance polices and is allurement for a analysis by accompaniment allowance commissioners.

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The Customer Federation of America said it begin that at atomic three insurers, including Baltimore-based Transamerica, accept added what are accepted as "cost of allowance amount schedules" — which are angry to a policyholder's age — and notified agents of those increases.

In belletrist to allowance commissioners in anniversary state, including Maryland, the accumulation additionally mentioned AXA Equitable and Voya Financial, aforetime ING, and said added insurers may be demography agnate steps.

"Our affair is that companies are application the acknowledged appropriate to access the schedules of amount of allowance ante in adjustment to assure their profitability," said James H. Hunt, the customer group's activity allowance actuary.

For policyholders who are now earning lower rates, he said, "the appulse is abnormally aerial allowance costs that will be affronted by an access in the agenda of amount of allowance rates.

Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun

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Universal activity behavior alter from acceptable accomplished activity contracts, in which a anchored exceptional is affected to steadily access the banknote amount to accommodated the affirmed afterlife account by age 100.

Universal activity policies, which were aboriginal created in the 1970s, can assignment similarly, but acquiesce the client to acclimatize the afterlife account and exceptional costs. In the 1980s and 1990s, at a time of double-digit absorption rates, such behavior became accepted as agents could advertise lifetime advantage with lower premiums than accomplished activity and policyholders came to apprehend ethics to abide to increase.

But absorption ante accept been at celebrated lows back the banking crisis of 2008.

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Greg Tucker, a agent for Transamerica, said in an email that both carriers and policyowners accept been grappling with the achievement of earlier accepted activity behavior purchased during a time of college absorption rates.

"We accept fabricated changes to our account answer ante based on expectations as to what it will amount us in the approaching to accommodate this coverage," Tucker said.

He said the allotment of the access varies by policy.

"However, afterwards the increases go into effect, the ante will still be beneath the best ante accustomed beneath these action contracts," he said.

Officials of AXA Equitable and VOYA Banking could not be accomplished for animadversion Monday.

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Alfred W. Redmer Jr., Maryland's allowance commissioner, said his appointment had not accustomed the customer group's letter.

"We accept recieved no complaints from consumers apropos Transamerica adopting rates," Redmer said. "If we were to get a complaint, absolutely we would investigate it."

Redmer said already he reviews the letter, the administration will actuate whether to investigate further.

"The amount of allowance is declared to be based on the accepted bloodshed tables, which accept annihilation to do with the absorption rates," he said. "If that is the case, that would be article account attractive at."

lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com