Description: This article addresses the scope of reserve valuation rules that compute or estimate reserves “on the basis of recognized mortality or morbidity tables, and assumed rates of interest.”

Description: This article describes the potential effects of a Guideline Premium Forceout on the policy values and administration of Universal Life policies.

Description: In this article, the authors take an exploration of the pertinent life insurance and political history along with a review of certain aspects of federal income tax policy.

Description: From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 Session topics included model hierarchy, statistical deterministic and stochastic models, real-life situations, how to organize a model effectively, structuring the model to fit the project or report data, sources/integrity techniques documentation, and constraints and limitations on models.

Description: The Chairperson addresses the readers.

Description: Four appendices are attached to the monograph: a letter requesting information, two letters requesting participation, and a set of general database specifications. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collections and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: In this article, the authors attempt to provide some guidance on working in the current environment.

Description: Essay states a competing American ideals for the U.S. Health care system include free markets which foster competition, cost effectiveness and quality health care vs.public and private assistance which provides health care independent of a person’s financial means.