Schiff's Insurance Observer

  • 2004 0616 - Schiff's Insurance Observer - Insurance Regulator Sucks up to Big Insurers: Makes Public Data Secret, Volume 16, Number 8 - 4p
    • The scandals uncovered by the Armstrong Committee were major news stories in 1905 and 1906.
    • Schedule G - Company compensation data , Joseph Belth and The Insurance Forum, FOIA / FOIL, 
    • “Go screw yourself, the insurance commissioner explained.” - Cartoon
    • Although insurance-company employees’ salaries had been publicly disclosed for ninety-four years, two months after receiving the letter from Equitable—and without any public hearing—New York’s Insurance Department decided to withhold the Schedule G data on the grounds that its release would constitute an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”