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: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the reasons for mutual life companies to have stock subsidiaries including taxes, introducing new products and distribution systems. It also covers the impact of TEFRA and Stark/Moore. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting is the Keynote Address on new products and new approaches. It covers new approaches at the company level and also new approaches for state regulation.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 37OF, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelist provides background on this new version of statutory accounting, formally called the Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, an NAIC document that took effect at the beginning of 2001, noting that even though the accounting isn’t yet formally an accreditation standard, it’s basically in effect everywhere. The panelist discusses the three key classes of documents within the manual: the Statutory Statement of Accounting Principles [SSAP] Appendix A consisting of various excerpts from NAIC model laws and regulations, and Appendix B, containing interpretations of the Emerging Accounting Issues Working Group. The panelist then discusses the relevant pieces of accounting guidance that are important to health valuation actuaries. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: A discussion of the political, economic, and demographic environment in Europe and its impact on the life insurance industry.

Description: In this session 120F of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discusses the impact that the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association and other recent market conduct developments will have on the practice and the profession of the actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists updated North American actuaries on current issues and trends in the European insurance marketplace.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting focuses on WL and UL insurance products offered in the U.S. and Canada, market and regulatory differences and similarities, the comparison of product offerings and an overview of current issues in product development. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This paper discusses a brief history of policy loans, a description of the problems being experienced by companies and possible solutions. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.