Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting covers the competition in financial industries, the degregulation efforts, demutualization and the effect of degregulation on life insurance companies. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: This discussion on individual sickness and accident insurance looks at the experience under major medical expense contracts with reference to sales, underwriting, claims and administration. The discussion also reviews the safeguards used for underwriting hospital expense coverage beyond age 65 and loss of time coverage for women.

Description: This general discussion looks at the results derived from the 15th International Congress of Actuaries and the legislations adopted in Canada and proposed in the U.S. giving favorable tax treatment to pension contributions by the self-employed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: This is a discussion about new product developments, supplementary benefits - Accidental Death, Guaranteed Insurability and automatic inclusion of supplementary benefits rather than optional, product expense trends, considerations in setting commissions for policies with different characteristics, and analyzing and entering new markets.

Description: This discussion examines the following questions: Do current immediate annuity rates reflect present conditions as to mortality, interest, and expense? To what extent do statutory reserves that exceed gross premiums less expenses represent a serious problem? What is being done in the way of using generation type annuity rates for settlement options?

Description: This is a discussion about agency compensation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This article is an abstract of notes from a June 1983 meeting of the New York Actuaries Club which discussed the perceived disadvantages suffered by the mutual form of life insurance company organization.