Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author summarizes recent court cases involving life insurance law.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session covered the practical aspects of implementing the Statement of Position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. Specific items include SA reporting, multiple account value products, guaranteed minimum death and living benefit reserves and sales inducements

Description: Discussion as to whether within an organization an actuary's regulatory role can conflict with his business-oriented role or be aligned with the strategic goals of the company.

Description: This article discusses HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1997 and the many NAIC model laws affecting health insurance and paricularly how Arkansas is facing the post-HIPAA complexities.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting focused on return on investment in a rate-regulated environment. Topics included current rate-regulated environments, current use of ROI, ROI in price setting and future rate regulation controls. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting examines the regulatory process, how an idea for a model bill works its way through the NAIC, the function of the ACLI and how from an industry side the process can be influenced at the state and federal levels. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting Panelists will review the Canadian experience in adopting dynamic solvency testing DST and the impact of DST on how companies do business, changes which have been made and the changes suggested to the DST. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium reviews the appointed actuary concept, the actuarial opinion and asset adequacy analysis as they apply to health insurance and expresses the views of one regulator on the subject and one actuary in terms of the actuarial standards of practice.

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. This session provided a brief overview of a variety of financial reporting topics most of which were discussed in more detail at later sessions. Topics included: 1. NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force developments and directions. 2. XXX Implementation Status. 3. New annuity valuation tables. 4. Statutory codification project. 5. AAA developments, including practice notes. 6. Unified Valuation Systems. 7. FASB and SEC developments. 8. Recent tax developments.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including Unisex rating, UL reserves and non-forfeiture values, policies without guaranteed cash surrender values, and smoker/non-smoker mortality tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.