Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 3 talks about a hypothetical life insurance company's introduction of a new policy whereby the increased death benefits after the premium paying period are used to justify smaller cash values and reserves than would be required under a comparable policy which endowed for its cash value at the end of the premium paying period.

Description: Documents the error in the Smoker/Nonsmoker CSO Tables accepted by the NAIC, and the expected approval of the NAIC to accept use of both the erroneous and the correct mortality rates for all regulatory purposes.