Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting looks at the issue of federal versus state regulation of insurance. Activities of the ACLI to develop an optional federal charter for companies and activities of the NAIC to improve speed to market are discussed.

Description: Discusses published IRS guidance, legislation in process, current developments under the new Pension Protection Act, and finally, what to anticipate from the IRS in the next several months. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This is a digest of three separate isues: First, discussion examines social security in the United States and recent developments shaping its future. Second topic, Fourth Pacific Insurance Conference for countries of the Pacific rim and Third, current legislative developments. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2. No. 59 AB.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. President GERALD FORD gave his predictions as to what he thought would happen in Washington on some of the controversial issues that were on the agenda. Topics included taxes, the deficit, defense budget increases, health care reform, international trade, and foreign policy.

Description: In light of the bankruptcies of Enron and WorldCom, this panel at the 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses legislative and regulatory activity, potential implications for the regulation of professions in the United States, and implications for valuation actuaries.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session provided information on executive compensation plans in the US, with special emphasis on nonqualified deferred compensation programs. Topics included: 1. Golden parachutes. 2. Limitations on deductibility of executive compensation. 3. Taxation for constructive receipt and the ERISA issues of these plans.

Description: At this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting, the current and past presidents of the NAIC relate various activities of the organization including the areas of consumer protection, insurer regulation and speed to market. Interstate Compact as a method for dealing with variations across states in regulation is discussed.

Description: In this session 50SM of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists review the results of recent tax court cases that will have an impact on the tax treatment of reinsurance agreements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Summary of discussions from various panelists on the topic of Social Security. They looked at recent developments with respect to general legislation expanding coverage, discussion of the Constitutional issues with respect to Social Security, developing experience of the new Canadian old-age pension plan, inadequacy of the funding levels relative to promised benefits for both the Canadian old-age plan and US Social Security.

Description: This discussion examines problems arising in complying with the provisions of the Federal Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act and problems in connection with underwriting and administration of small groups. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.