List of Pre-Need Firms in the Philippines, as of September 2011
Sa wakas, nag-release na rin ang Insurance Commission ng list nila ng pre-need firms in the Philippines licensed to sell pre-need plans for the year 2011.
Planholders of Platinum Plans, Ideal Pension Plans, Grayline Plans — Who Will Fight for Them?
Who will fight for the planholders of Platinum Plans, Ideal Pension Plans, Grayline Plans and the Other Failed and Uncaring Pre-need Firms?
Pre-need Companies in the Philippines Now under Insurance Commission
Pre-need companies in the Philippines are now under the supervision of the Insurance Commission.
The pre-need law was passed in December 2009 and the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) were signed in March 2010.
Visit the website of the Insurance Commission at insurance.gov.ph, and you will see the pre-need code and the IRR already published on the site.
You will also see the list of the 23 pre-need firms under Directory of the IC home page. However, the list on the IC was still the list previously prepared by the SEC.
The list includes the 23 pre-need firms that were licensed to sell pre-need plans as of December 2009:
- Abundance Providers and Entrepreneurs Corporation (APEC) (formerly Pacific Plans)
- AMA Plans
- Ayala Plans
- Caritas Financial Plans
- CityPlans
- Cocoplans
- Danvil Plans (formerly Berkley International Plans)
- Destiny Financial Plans
- Eternal Plans
- First Country Plans
- First Union Plans
- Grayline Plans
- Himlayang Pilipino Plans
- Loyola Plans Consolidated
- Manulife Financial Plans
- Mercantile Careplans
- Paz Memorial Services
- Philplans First (formerly Philam Plans)
- Provident International Plans
- St. Peter Life Plan
- Sun Life Financial Plans
- Transnational Plans
- Trusteeship Plans
The only two changes from the May 2009 list are:
- the addition of APEC to the list
- change of name of Philam Plans to Philplans
For those who have complaints, inquiries or claims, you can address them to:
Public Assistance & Information Division
523-8461 to 70 local 102, 103, 105
pubassist@insurance.gov.ph
Prudentialife Plans – Termination of Plan
This is for those asking about Prudentialife Plans, the diversified pre-need firm with main address at Prudentialife Bldg., 118 Gamboa St., Legazpi Village, Makati City.
Check again because this is often confused with a different company, Philippine Prudential Life Insurance Company (PPLIC), an insurance company headquartered in Pasig City and affiliated with Danvil Plans. Prudentialife and Prudential Life are not affiliated with each other.
If you have decided to terminate your Prudentialife plans, these are the documents you need to bring to Prudentialife to apply for termination:
- Plan or policy contract (Original)
- Certificate of Full Payment (Original)
- At least two valid IDs (Photocopies signed three times)
- Benefits Settlement Application Form (3 copies)
- Processing fee of 300 pesos (to be deducted from the proceeds of the plan)
You can view or download a copy of the Benefits Settlement Application Form here.
If you like to view or download copies of a special power of attorney or affidavits, go here.
Always remember though that if you terminate your plan, you won’t get back all the money you paid. You’ll only get a small portion. The percentages are written in your plan.
But as others say, mas mabuti nang merong konti kesa wala.
I don’t have a Prudentialife plan. What I have is a Danvil plan. There was one time I also considered termination because of the pre-need crisis, but I decided to wait.
Nevertheless, we have to decide for ourselves. We gather information and then decide. Whatever happens, we have ourselves to blame or congratulate.
Main Address:
Website: www.prudentialife.com
For addresses of Prudentialife branches, go here.
Legacy Group Victims
Reading news about investment victims is depressing and stressful because it evokes anger against the perpetrators.
But oftentimes, I still read them just to remind myself that I’m not alone, that I’m not the only one who made wrong financial decisions.
About four years ago, my former-OFW-husband and I lost about 400,000 pesos in a failed investment.
Going back to the Legacy Group scam, here are some of the investors that lost big amounts of money, based on news reports on inquirer.net:
Boy Galang, an OFW in Oman
Galang invested 200,000 in Legacy’s double-your-money scheme. He even canceled his flight back to Oman just to submit his complaint, hoping to get back his money.
Over 12,000 Soldiers and Police Officers Including Colonel Ariel Querubin
The Armed Forces and Police Savings and Loan Association Inc. reported that 12,047 soldiers and police officers invested nearly 318 million pesos in Legacy’s Scholarship Plan Philippines through salary deductions.
Querubin said he had paid a total of 109,000 since buying a plan in 1999.
So Sad About Permaplans or Permanent Plans
I’m not a Permaplans planholder, but I’m so sad about what’s happening with Permaplans or Permanent Plans, especially with the pre-need firm’s interaction with the SEC.
Again, it’s the planholders who are suffering.
Back in April, Permaplans’ president Juan Miguel Vazquez said his firm isn’t considering going to court for rehabilitation because court rehab takes time and delays payments to planholders.
But now the firm has filed for rehab, which according to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez is not the best option for planholders. He mentioned this while commenting on the Legacy case.
Updates on Danvil Plans and Other Pre-need Firms from March to May 2009
March 13-19
At the Senate hearing on pre-need firms, former Legacy executive Carolina Hinola accused SEC Commissioner Jesus Enrique Martinez of covering up Legacy’s financial problems after accepting gifts from Legacy, including a 5-million-peso house and lot and a 1.5-million Ford Expedition from Legacy head Celso de Los Angeles.
Insiders also claimed that Martinez tried to broker the sale of Danvil Plans to the Legacy Group. The sale did not push through after Danvil Plans backed out of the deal allegedly upon the advice of other top pre-need executives.
(Martinez died on May 6 due to colon cancer complications.)
Danvil Plans, Coco Plans, AMA Plans Deficient in Their Trust Funds
Here are some key points of recent news on these 3 pre-need firms.
Thanks to Epoy who notified me about these developments.
The information here was gathered by Philippine Daily Inquirer reporters at the resumption of the Senate inquiry into pre-need firms on May 6.
- Coco Plans, AMA Plans and Danvil Plans were found by SEC to have deficient trust funds.
- Coco Plans and Danvil Plans have submitted their proposals on how to build up their capital.
- AMA Plans has not yet submitted its proposal.
- Some of the remaining 19 pre-need firms have submitted their financial statements and have to comply with the SEC requirement until May 14.
- Caesar Michelena of Coco Plans said Coco Plans’ trust fund is enough to make maturity pay-outs for the next 9 years.
- SEC Chairwoman Fe Barin said SEC was reviewing the financial statements of the pre-need firms and coordinating with trustee banks if the trust funds are there.
- Senator Manuel Roxas suggested that SEC require pre-need firms to fill up the deficiencies in their trust funds before they continue selling plans.
- Roxas mentioned that the failed Legacy was still selling plans the month before it applied for dissolution.
Source: 3 more troubled pre-need firms watched
By Christine Avendano
Philippine Daily Inquirer
I Have to Correct My Mistake: Prudentialife Plans Inc. is Different from Philippine Prudential Life Insurance Co. Inc.
I’m very sorry I may have misled some of you when I answered some of your questions/comments in relation to “Prudential.”
My mistake was I thought the Prudentialife Plans Inc. which was suspended recently by SEC is the same Prudential which has been partnering with Danvil Plans since 2007.
Thanks so much to Rolly who made the correction. Based on Rolly’s info and on my quick online research, these are some info that would clear things up:
Philippine Prudential Life Insurance Co. is the company which bought the life insurance portfolio of Berkley/Danvil in 2007. This is also the issuer of life insurance plans and endowment plans being sold by Danvil Plans.
Philippine Prudential is a life insurance company supervised by the Insurance Commission. It is not a pre-need company.
web site: http://www.philprudentiallife.com/pplic/
On the other hand, Prudentialife Plans Inc. is a pre-need company supervised by the SEC. This is the company whose license to sell was suspended by the SEC last April 2009.
web site: http://www.prudentialife.com/
The good news then to many of you whose plans were issued by Philippine Prudential Life Insurance Co. ( sold through Danvil Plans) is that your plans are not affected by the trust fund problems prevalent in the pre-need industry… because your plans are insurance plans issued by an insurance company, which has been operating since 1963, according to its web site.
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