Description: This is an article about debt protection and credit insurance as products. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Doing Illustration Actuary Testing over the Life of a Policy

Description: Read the June 2020 issue of Small Talk published by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article discusses how small companies, by staying simple and focused and not taking immeasurably disastrous risks, bring sanity to an insane world.

Description: Author highlights historical nonforfeiture and federal tax law changes, as they have impacted life product designs, in prognosticating about future product designs.

Description: Feature article discussing how to do a model update.

Description: After years of discussion and debate, PrinciplesBased Reserving (PBR) is finally a reality. Small insurance companies have a unique opportunity to decide between electing for the company-wide exemption or adopting the PBR methods. This article discusses the benefits and challenges of the options available to small insurers under VM-20 as well as best practices that have been found along the way.

Description: The NALC has been working with their members and the members of the Small Policy Consortium. The Consortium members met with regulators to discuss the NALC's concerns with the activities of the NAIC in connection with small life insurance policies. This article outlines those concerns.

Description: The purpose of the article is to discuss the benefits of small policy purchases by seniors, describe the market and distribution for these small face amounts of life insurance, and demonstrate the dimensions of the market.

Description: This is an article on avian flu and reinsurance as it relates to smaller insurance companies.