Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings focuses on federal income tax questions including recent rulings, company organization around tax work, the role of actuaries, and Canadian developments.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers premiuims and dividend determination methods for individual ordinary insurance, new product ideas such as nonsmoker policies, profit analysis methodologies, and methods for comparing products of different companies.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting looks at research on agency operations and actuarial involvement.

Description: This is a discussion about insurance company equity products from the viewpoints of the actuary, the agent and the regulatory authority. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59.

Description: This discussion is about the increasing unit expense rates even in light of increases in insurance amount, simplified procedures and greater mechanization, methods to allocate agency expenses in to the premium structure and the importance considerations in determining the level of gross premiums. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 pt. 2

Description: This discussion focuses on methods used for classifying and analyzing expenses, and explores new accounting and office procedures. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: General discussion session which included the following topics: A. Non-medical limits B. Deficiency reserves for individual life insurance

Description: This paper will not attempt to cover the details of every possible approximate method, but will endeavor to illustrate the use of principles andgeneral methods. It is hoped that the application of these principles and methods will help develop particular solutions to many of the varied valuation problems of today. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss various underwriting topics, including larger amounts of insurance and higher limits on premium waiver and accidental death benefits, larger non-medical limits, impairments, substandard underwriting classes, and aviation risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.