Maple Life Financial Adds Former Maryland Insurance Administration Principal Counsel to Leadership Team (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BETHESDA, Md.----Maple Life Financial is pleased to announce the addition of Kathleen A. Birrane as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

U.K. insurance takeover: Resolution surrenders to Pearl (International Herald Tribune)
Resolution, the biggest British manager of closed life insurance funds, agreed to a 4.98 billion, or $10.2 billion, takeover by Pearl Group, ending a bidding contest and almost four months of resistance.