Description: Discussion of the insurance industry in Ireland and the related regulatory and tax issues.

Description: Describes the risk-based capital measure adopted in Switzerland.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: On Dec. 29, 1973 President Nixon signed into law the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, which authorizes $375 million to be used by the DHEW to stimulate the establishment and development of HMO's over the next five years. This article describes the status of the regulations and the development of additional HMO's.

Description: Author identifies the issues, especially as they relate to smaller insurers, and then lists some provisions of current pending federal legislation.

Description: The article discusses the proposed revisions to the AOMR Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum and how it will affect insurance companies.

Description: This article discusses regulatory proposals and developments at both the state and federal level that call for small insurer vigilance.

Description: In this 1977 editorial, the author, an associate editor of The Actuary, discusses the significant changes in federal insurance law in Canada, under which prescribed assumptions will be replaced by the assumptions deemed appropriate by the valuation actuary.

Description: Discussion of events of a the June 2009 NAIC/LHATF meeting.

Description: Update on statutory Valuation reserves and required surplus for variable annuities with living benefit guarantees