Myers v. Deutsche Bank, FINRA ID # 11-02623 (San Francisco, CA, 2/12/2013) -
Customers who purchased premium-financed life insurance recover $834,193 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in attorney fees.
What is premium-financed life insurance?
For affluent people who don't want to liquidate other assets to pay for life insurance, borrowing funds from a third party to cover the cost of a policy and paying it back in installments -- a practice called premium financing. For some it can seem a practical to be a solution.
But financial planners warn that such a strategy is vulnerable to abuse -- and the elderly in particular, need to be wary of it. If interest rates go up, the client can end up owing more for the premiums than the policy is worth.
Another concern is the credit quality of the company that writes the policy. If there's a downgrade, the lender may not pay additional premiums, or it may call for the loan's collateral.
Premium financing can be a way for a life insurance agent or premium finance company to make huge fees and commissions, but it could leave the client who signed for the loan left holding the bag.
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Steven Graham (CRD 1977736) denies the allegations in a pending customer claim filed on August 11, 2026. The disclosure names Western International Securities as the firm, and the claim involves corporate bonds. No arbitrator has ruled on it. His BrokerCheck report also lists a settled bond dispute and a federal court matter from earlier years.
A claim filed on September 11, 2024 names Thomas Hamlin (CRD 2208505) over a 10% Senior Unsecured Note in iCap Fund III. Every disclosure on his BrokerCheck report involves an iCap private placement and names Somerset Securities as the firm. Each one settled, and a settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing.
Peter Po's most recent settlement came on June 28, 2026, when a corporate bond claim settled for $40,000. Po (CRD 3106974) appears in several settled customer disputes over corporate and high-yield bonds. The disclosures name NI Advisors or California Securities as the firm, and each matter ended in a settlement, not a finding.
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