North Coast Life Insurance Company Announces 2nd Quarter Financial Results and Preferred Stock Dividend (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SPOKANE, Wash.----July 28, 2006--North Coast Life Insurance Company's Board of Directors, at its regular quarterly meeting held July 28, 2006, declared the September 30, 2006 preferred stock dividend payment on its Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Ridgecrest Daily Independent)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

MassMutual's San Francisco Bay Area Agency Reaches $3 Billion in Life Insurance Coverage in Force (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The San Francisco Bay Area Agency LLC, a Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company general agency based in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced today it has reached $3 billion of life insurance coverage in force issued by MassMutual and its affiliates.

Life insurance Without an Exam Not a Good Idea (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - Are you one of those people who always gets nervous at test time? If so, you may be intrigued by the prospect of buying a life insurance policy that doesn't require a physical exam, but you could be making a huge financial mistake.