Correspondence; copies of transcripts of court proceedings, hearings before the Commissioner of Insurance, and other legal documents; and occasional registration statements, examination and actuarial reports, and annual statements; relating to investigations of funds or persons, usually involving alleged violations of section 211.14 of the statutes. Special investigations were made into the following funds or persons:

--Association Life Insurance Company, an investigation, 1965-1966, of multi-employer trust programs operated by the Association Life Insurance Company, concluding in a judgment that conflicts of interest existed between the management company, the trustee, and the insurance company and that corrections would have to be made. (In Box 1)

--Barbers, Beauticians, and Allied Industries Pension Fund, an investigation, 1970-1973, of a fund suspected of being actuarially unsound, in which the Commissioner of Insurance and the Attorney General's office appeared as amicus curiae in an action in federal court in Indianapolis resulting in termination of the fund and distribution of the fund assets. (In Box 1-2)

--Dietz Electric Company, a fund depletion investigation, 1973-1975, involving party-in-interest investments, resulting in court action in the Dane County Circuit Court. The fund was terminated, and fund assets were distributed to the participants. (In Box 2)

--H.H. Evon-Red Dot, an investigation, 1973-1975, concerning the closing of the Red Dot potato chip plants in Madison and Rhinelander which had been acquired by the H.H. Evon Company of Little Rock, Arkansas, and the problems arising in the termination of the retirement fund and distribution of its assets. (In Box 2)

--E.R. Flint and Company Employees' Stock Bonus Trust, a fund depletion investigation, 1967-1969, of a retirement fund operated by a floor covering company in Milwaukee which closed its operations because of financial difficulties, resulting in hearings before the Commissioner of Insurance to determine the facts and the responsibilities of the trustees. The file contains original copies of annual statements, correspondence, and examination reports, 1961-1965, which were used in the investigation. (In Box 2)

--Pension Management, Inc. and H.R. Buckman, a conflict of interest investigation, 1970-1974, concerning H.R. Buckman, an employee of the trustees of Pension Management, Inc. as well as an agent for the insurance purchased by the trustees, settled by a circuit court decision in Dane County holding that Mr. Buckman was not in violation of section 211.14(2)(a) of the statutes. (In Box 2)

--Teamsters Local 158 Health and Welfare Fund, an investigation of fund mismanagement, 1958-1959, 1964, resulting in exploratory hearings held in Milwaukee in 1958-1959 and culminating in a fugitive warrant issued in 1964 for one of the union and fund officials. The final disposition of the case is not clear from the file. (In Box 2)

--Russell M. Tolley, a conflict of interest investigation begun in 1959 concerning Russell Tolley, an employee of the trustees of a health and welfare fund in Milwaukee as well as an agent for the insurance purchased by the trustees. In 1961, Tolley, then a resident of Indiana, applied for a non-resident life insurance agent's license, which the commissioner refused to grant. Tolley filed a petition for a public hearing on the matter, which he withdrew in 1962. (In Box 2)

--Union Vacation Stamp and Nostamp Plans, an investigation, 1959-1962, to determine whether union vacation plans were subject to the Employee Welfare Funds Division's jurisdiction as welfare funds. Vacation stamp plans required the employer to buy stamps from a bank or a union and put them in his employees' stamp book, which then would be redeemed for vacation days. The stamp plans decreased in popularity as time went on, so this question became academic. (In Box 2)