Category Archives: Data Management

What is a New Customer? Are we talking about the same thing?

The number of new customers is a popular KPI request of a database provider. Believe it or not, there is more than one way to answer the question and key factors that can impact measurement. 1. Determining Original Purchase The … Continue reading

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Email Database Check List

Looking for an easy way to make more money from your existing buyer file?  Expand your marketable universe of email addresses.  Now is the time to make sure you haven’t missed an opportunity to communicate through this budget friendly and … Continue reading

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Improve Customer Retention by Targeting Segments in Motion

The ever popular and highly predictive “RFM” metric provides a static point in time view of your customers by their purchase total and number of months since last purchase to date.  In general, more recent customers with higher dollars and … Continue reading

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Florida Court Issues Opinion on ‘Time’ vs ‘Proof’ of Death

Please see below for an article recapping the Florida First District Court of appeals’ August 5th 2014 opinion in regard to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans v. State of Florida, Department of Financial Services (DFS).  In short, the court disagreed with … Continue reading

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Guidance on Proposed DMF Certification Guidelines

As many are now aware, the administration recently passed legislation that will delay access to current death data on the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File (SSA DMF) for three years.  This legislation provides for a certification process that will … Continue reading

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Are Standardized Death-Matching Guidelines on the Horizon for Insurers?

As many in the insurance industry now know, New York Life Insurance Co. (NY Life) has recently agreed to a $15 million dollar settlement to close its unclaimed property audits.  While NY Life has been considered by many to be … Continue reading

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ANICO Ruling Casts Doubt on Ability to Circumvent State UP Audits; Is there an Implied Duty to Undertake Death Matching?

On May 7th, 2013, the California State Controller filed suit against ANICO (John Chiang vs. American National Insurance Company) seeking an order preliminarily enjoining Defendant American National Insurance Company, a Texas Corporation, (“ANICO”), and any persons acting on their behalf, including … Continue reading

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The Impact of Proposed Legislation to Restrict Access to the SSA DMF; Making “The Perfect” the Enemy of “The Good”?

There is an old story about large numbers of government benefit checks piling up at Post Offices.  Postal carriers, leery of mail theft in marginal neighborhoods, would hold checks rather than placing them in mail boxes.  While this kept the checks out … Continue reading

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Understanding the Importance of Feingold v. John Hancock Life Insurance Company

Please see the below for an interesting article titled ‘Win for Life Insurer in Unclaimed Property Arena” which discusses Feingold v. John Hancock Life Insurance Co., No. 13-10185 (D. Mass.). This article opens by noting the scrutiny that has recently been … Continue reading

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Making Sense of the GAO Reports on Gaps & Errors in the SSA Death Master File

There have been many recent developments impacting the insurance industry.  This discussion covers the following: May 3rd 2013 GAO audit report identifying gaps in the SSA DMF and Verus Financial’s comments on same. May 8th 2013 GAO testimony addressing the … Continue reading

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