Description: This section presents and summarizes insurance-related legal cases of 1953 including: 1. GROUP ANNUITY CONTRACTPERPETUAL OBLIGATION: Freeport Sulphur Company v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, 2. SERVICE OF PROCESSUNAUTHORIZED INSURER: Parmalee v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, 3. ORAL PLEDGE OR ASSIGNMENTCREDITOR'S RIGHT: Commercial National Bank v. Chapman, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Weissman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 5. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL COMPANYJURISDICTION OF INSURANCE COMMISSlONER: Allyn v. Hull, 6. AVIATION EXCLUSIONPARACHUTE JUMP: Smith v. Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 7. SETTLEMENT OPTIONTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. PURCHASE OF HOME OFFICE PROPERTYINSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL: Guardian Life Insurance Company vs. Bohlinger, 9. LOAN VALUE: DISABILITY AND DOUBLE INDEMNITY RESERVES: Chastang v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 10. CONVERSION OF GROUP INSURANCESUICIDE: Lineberry v. Security Life and Trust Company, 11. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses dividends. Topics include the reflection in dividends of new federal income tax basis for qualified pensions involving individual policies, and for certain annuities, rate of excess interest on supplementary contracts vs. accumulated dividends, and issues involving dividends on supplementary contracts.

Description: The failure of a few large life insurers in the early 1990's led to public concern about the safety of annuities purchased by qualified retirement plans. As a result, the Department of Labor issued guidelines, known as the 'Safest Annuity Rule,' for selecting annuity providers. This study examines whether the Safest Annuity Rule is significantly changing the market for insured annuities issued to tax-qualified pension plans, particularly upon the termination of defined benefit plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1997-98 Reports.

Description: Presents 5 year mortality experience on self-administered pension plans for period from 1980 - 1984, and presents historical data from 1945 forward.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting looks at research on agency operations and actuarial involvement.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1958. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: The objective of this forum was to bring together basic factual material and to discover a good cross section of actuarial thinking in this field. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: The purpose of the present paper is to propose a family of sex-year-of-birth tables which may be used in place of The Annuity Table for 1940 with Projection. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This paper proposes a new mortality table as a minimum reserve standard for individual annuities - the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, '1971 IAM Table,' which is given herein. The construction of the new table is described and it is compared with current valuation standards.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about considerations in choosing interest assumptions and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.