Governance Institute Announces New White Paper on Non-Profit Healthcare Executive Compensation Issues

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Low interest rates, intense competition, demographics and
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For more information or a copy of "The Board's Role in Approving Executive
Compensation ," please contact The Governance Institute.

CONTACT: Carlin Lockee, Managing Editor (858) 909-0811

The average age for new preneed contracts is
approximately 71 years old, with in-force at approximately 72.

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Concerns with potentially "excessive"
compensation arrangements have been expressed by the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS), state charity law officials, and by third party interest groups such as
labor unions, consumer groups, and policy/advocacy organizations. About 16 % of this business was issued as individual,
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Authors Michael Peregrine and Ralph DeJong of McDermott Will + Emery, LLP,
and Timothy Cotter and Kathryn Hastings of SullivanCotter + Associates cover
these issues in a new Governance Institute white paper, entitled "The Board's
Role in Approving Executive Compensation. At 1. The study includes:- Benchmarking of
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This white paper provides an awareness
of the breadth of the current regulatory focus on executive compensation of
non-profit organizations; a review of what the law provides and allows with
respect to executive compensation; and a "roadmap" for a non-profit
hospital/health system and its governing board to organize its executive
compensation decision making process to comply with relevant law .

A.M. Best Special Report: Preneed Insurance- A Market Opportunity for Committed U.S. Insurers

Preneed policies are generally life insurance policies. Annuity sales are quite significant for some preneed
companies, but for the total market only represent about 9%, divided
between single pay (5%) and multipay (4%). For more
information, visit A.

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SAN DIEGO, The last two years have seen
extraordinary focus on the executive compensation practices of non-profit,
tax-exempt hospitals and health systems and the role of the governing board in
the oversight of such practices ." Fortunately, there is rather clear
guidance under the law and through governance "best practices " on how best a
non-profit hospital/health system and its governing board should proceed to
address executive compensation issues.
Generally, if a client is "at need" where death is imminent within the
next few months, then preneed life insurance is not really
appropriate.