'CONFLICT,' PRESSURE' CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 4, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Conunisioner hits
Senate Chairman
By BUD VESTAL
(Press Lansing Bureau) 11
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-ate insurance chairman wa ~?
charged with conflict of intern.
and "pressure" attempts tod,;
by outgoing insurance commit II
stoner Allen L. Mayerson.
Mayerson added that othe
legislators have berated hi
because their auto insuranc
was canceled, and in the case
of six lawmakers he informe
the insurance companies whic
then reinstated the policies "b
cause they had not known th '
persons involved were legisl
tors."
Mayerson will leave his po
Thursday after a stormy yea
during which many legislate
attacked him for "moonligh -
ing" as an actuarial consultant
for an insurance company whil
in office.
He said today that Sena
Insurance Chariman Bernard
O'Brien, D-D e t r o i t, beca
"hostile" to his insurance d -
partment and-legislation that tl
1 seeks after he ordered invest-'
gaion of what he termed
thinly disguised insurance sal
scheme by an insurance co -
mittee investigator hired bir
O'Brien.
O'Brien is an agent for se -
eral insurance companies as s
the investigator-Peter Bill, S
of Dearborn Heights, a $95- -
day employe of 'O'Brien's co -j
mittee and a salaried emplo e
of the United Insurance Co -
pany of America.
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Mayerson said he has order-
d a 10-day suspension for two
gents of 'United Insurance who
were briefed by Bill on how to
ake a "survey" of Michigan
farmers after passage of a new
vorkmen's compensation' act
!hat affected farmers -employ-
n; three or more hands.
Several farriers complained
that Bill's agents tried to sell
them insurance against farm
hands' injury claims while male
ing a "survey" of farmer atti
tudes toward the new act.
Bill has become a shadow
man in Senate affaris, subjec i
to ni?any questions and few an
swers, because O'Brien ha.
touted him as ..:'recommends ;
by President Johnson" and-hint
ed at connections with the fed.:
oral Central Intelligence Age n-.
.cy.
Inquiry about Bill reveals n e.
White House "in" but does sho ,
that Bill flunked casualty i `
surance agent's examination
twice, An 1953 and 1057.
Mayerson, who is leaving hi
post to return to the Universit
of Michigan business scho I
faculty, was bitter about O'Br
en's power over insurance le -i
islation and over the insuran i
industry in Michigan.
He said 10 bills proposed
the Insurance Department
eight of them already pass
by the House-are bottled tpl
in O'Brien's committee with o,
I
According to Insurance D ,-j
partment records, Seat. O'Bri n
is an agent for a number f
life and casualty insuran e .
companies.
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