Description: This article summarizes the following insurance-related legal cases from 1959 and 1960: 1. McCarran Act-FTC Jurisdiction-Mail Order Insurance: Federal Trade Commission v. Traveler's Health Association, 2. New York Premium Notice Statute-Notice to Assignee: Maloney v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 3. Good Health Clause-Waiver and Estoppel: Souter v. State Mutual Life Assurance Company, 4. Insurable Interest of Corporation-Proceeds of Policy as Taxable Income: Ducros v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 5. Stock Life Company-Rights of Participating Policyholders-Charter Limitations: Ohio State Life Insurance Company v. Clark 6. Policy Restriction Against Assignment-Direction to Pay Cash Value: Magus v. National Life and Accident Insurance Company, 7. Creditor's Right-Insurance Purchased with Loan Procured with Fictitious Collateral: First National Bank v. Pope, and 8. Officer Unworthy of the Public Confidence-Constitutionality of Texas Statute: Jordan v. State Board of Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: Feature article discussing U.S. and international regulatory developments of interest to actuaries in the financial reporting field.

Description: Discussion of the prospect of federal insurance regulation.

Description: The purpose of paper is to outline and illustrate some of the more important differences among the current US and Canadian regulatory capital regimes and the standard formula of the Solvency II framework using a hypothetical term-life insurance portfolio as an example.

Description: An actuary talks about his career, his firm's ventures into partnerships between actuaries and health care professionals, and his role in the role in the largest actuarial malpractice settlement in history.

Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: This article discusses how insurance regulation needed to evolve to meet the need for more understandable policy forms. This article was written before the Flesch Reading Ease test was in common use.

Description: This article reviews some of the highlights of th 2010 SOA Annual meeting including the impact on pricing resulting from Solvency II, Market Consistent Valuation of New Business - MCVNB, the latest on mortality, Standards of Practice in product development, managing risk in product design and a regulation update.

Description: Column discussing developments in insurance accounting from January - March.

Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.