Description: This work describes a study undertaken to determine whether the Federal Housing Administration's 'FHA' single-family-home mortgage insurance program for investor 'non-occupant' loans should be modified. The sample data were analyzed using both Bayesian and sample reuse procedures. A commentary on the paper is included.

Description: Topics and cases discussed include: Pension Plan Tort Liability for Incomplete Information: Gediman v. Anheuser Busch Deposit with State Treasurer Liability for Release to Insurance Commissioner: Hometrust Life Insurance Company v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.

Description: Continuation - Part 2- of a three part panel discussion about social insurance in Great Britain. Moves on to a discussion of social insurance in the United States including social security, disability income, unemployment insurance and old age assistance From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion covered: 1. The extent to which companies' net earned interest rates have risen above their low points from that of several years ago and 2. The NAICs' new method of dividing amortizable bonds into two classes in the valuation of securities

Description: Paper discussing the pension termination insurance program for single employer plans established under Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the effects of the Group Annuity Federal Disclosure Act, problems resulting from its implementation, and whether the act has improved communications to employees.

Description: Topics: Financial strength issues related to formation of new companies, and content of SOA's spring programs and discussion rules.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1957, including a case regarding interpretation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 with amendments, FIT deduction of group disability benefits, FTC jurisdiction over advertising, group life employee ineligibility and incontestable clause, date of reinstatement, and claims issues.

Description: These are legal notes concerning policy owner federal income tax, taxation to an agent for expenses for sales convention travel, claims contest on a policy with false statements on the application, timing on surrender of a life insurance policy immediately before death, permitted investment by a life insurance company in a property/casualty company, extraterritorial issues pertaining to regulation of group life insurance, and tax deduction for reserves on pension contracts covering its own employees.