A class-action suit has been filed by purchasers of securities from Life Partners Holdings (LPH), alleging that the Waco, Texas-based company and some of its officers and directors violated securities laws.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a Texas-based life settlement company’s estimates for life expectancy.

A small law firm serving as an escrow agent for a Texas-based life settlement company has received permission serve to also serve as its trust company.

A Texas-based life settlements firm has agreed to a settlement with Virginia regulators over allegations it failed to register its securities.

A Texas viatical firm has reached a $250,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought against it by a Pennsylvania woman with AIDS who claimed the firm did not live up to …  Read →

Coventry First, a Fort Washington, Pa.-based life settlement firm, is an example of much of what’s wrong with the life settlement industry, according to a Florida regulator’s testimony at a …  Read →