Description: This session takes a different approach than the similarly named session at the Spring 1988 Meeting. Here, panelists: [1] provide a 'Corporate Planning 101' background, [2] discuss planning surplus, and [3] discuss implementation challenges. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: Feature article discussing the high cost of prescription medicines in Canada.

Description: Chief actuary of the California Insurance Department provides excerpts from a paper he presented his personal views to the Actuarial Research Conference in October 1986. He states that the regulators need to be aware of a deteriorating financial condition of an insurer in time to protect its policyholders from the consequences of insolvency.

Description: Summary of the papers presented at the symposium

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys - Preferred Underwriting Survey Subcommittee. This survey asked for preferred risk underwriting practices as of July 2002. This is the third such survey completed by the Society of Actuaries. The intent of this survey was to gather information on the many variations in preferred risk underwriting.

Description: This session discussed: Emerging trends in government financing, availability and scope of public programs Medicare supplement products implications New opportunities for the private sector e.g., Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations Future Federal Insurance Contributions Act Tax. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 San Francisco

Description: Panel discussion of national, state, and provincial developments in health care policy and regulation. Presented at the 1975 annual meeting.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting focuses on FAS 133, which defines accounting for derivatives, embedded options and hedging activities. Details of FAS 133 and implementation issues are discussed.

Description: This is the general session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting with keynote speaker, Dr. J. Craig Venter who discusses sequencing the human genome, dog genome and mouse genome and the impact on the practice of medicine. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting addresses risk selection and classification and wellness-related issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.