Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 provides a recap of a meeting held by the Actuaries Club of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio where three topics on the relationship of consumerism and life insurance were discussed.

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This article discusses three litigation issues: 1. Shelter Framing Corp. v. PBGC: This is a case recently placed on the Appellate Docket of the U.S. Supreme Court being appealed from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That Circuit Court held that the Multiemployer Pension Plan amendments Act, which imposes liability on employers who withdrew from multiemployer plans, is unconstitutional as applied to employers who withdraw before the Act’s enactment but after its retroactively effective date. 2. Federal Trade Commission: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has held that an investigation by the FTC into whether finance companies and auto dealerships were engaging in unfair and deceptive practices by representing that purchase of credit life insurance was required as a condition to obtain financing, was not outside the FTC’s power. 3. Baldwin-United Case: Under the rehabilitation plan for Baldwin-United, the Company would refund $3.7 billion to the annuity holders. Several groups are challenging this decision.

Description: An article in which the author discusses Generation X and the growing need to market and communicate with this group of individuals. The subset of entry level actuaries among Generation X are found to be the best and brightest.

Description: Discusses bancassurance in the United States, after providing a brief background about it in Europe.

Description: Discussion of the 1998 Generally Recognized Expense Table GRET and questions pertaining to the acceptable use of the GRET to demonstrate compliance with the NAIC Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation.

Description: Article from The Actuary, February 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 2 provides a recap of the Actuaries Club of New York meeting and the two panel discussions one on Consumerism and one on the Interest Adjusted Cost Method.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 11. This is a debate regarding two approaches to Life Insurance Illustrations: The Range approach vs. the Current Scale approach

Description: This is the second report, entitled Philosophies in the Computation and Dissemination of Dividend Illustrations, of the Society’s Committee on Cost Comparison Methods and Related Issues. Like the first report The Actuary-March 1975, this was prepared at the request of the NAIC.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 provides the author's observation of the Interest Adjusted Method for illustrating policy costs.