Description: A short introduction to the articles in the May 2012 supplement, "They Go Bump in the Night: Life Insurance Policies and the Law of Material Change" and "Administration of the Material Change Rules: Meeting the Challenge."

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion is about technological advances. Topics discussed: 1. The exponential growth in power of the microchip. 2. The role of fiber optics in the revolution. 3. The role of the airwaves in the revolution. 4. The risks of over regulation.

Description: A discussion of the Treasury’s Priority Guidance Plan for the year July 2010 through June 2011.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses universal life including examining new product designs, administrative issues and regulatory and tax issues.

Description: Full version of Small Talk Newsletter, May 1998, Issue No. 11.

Description: Editor highlights three of the issue's articles and gives thanks to the departing assistant editor.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers individual life products including the state of the market, sales results, new ideas and regulatory developments.

Description: The IRS released the details of a program to allow life insurers to correct inadvertent failures to comply with the modified endowment MEC rules under section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code the “Code”.

Description: The Taxing Times editor discusses what is in the current issue as well as Obama adminstration tax proposals affecting the insurance industry such as notification requirements and COLI. Also mentioned are IRS expected guidance on deficiency reservs and 7702 defining cash surrender value.

Description: A diverse variety of topics covering developments in the taxation of life insurance products and companies is highlighted. Two articles in the accompanying May supplement, which relate to the concept of material changes under the tax law, are also mentioned.