Description: This report documents the results of the Committee’s third expense study – the 2003 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This paper looks at the following cases: 1. DOING BUSINESS BY MAIL SERVICE OF PROCESS: Travelers Heath Association v. Virginia, 2. AVIATION EXCLUSION FAILURE OF INSURED TO SIGN RESTRICTIVE RIDER: McDaniel v. California-Western States Life Insurance Company, 3. WAR RIDER WAIVER BY ACCEPTANCE OF PREMIUMS: White v. New York Life Insurance Company, 4. MISREPRESENTATION IN APPLICATION MINORS BINDING EFFECT: Modern Woodmen of America v. Stevens, 5. DISABILITY BENEFITS INSANITY AS EXCUSING NOTICE: Chagnon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 6. AGENTS' COMPENSATION AMOUNT NOT AGREED TO IN ADVANCE: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Durkin, 7. GOVERNMENT ALLOTMENTPAYMENT OF PREMIUMS IN ERROR: Atlas Life Insurance Company v. Davis, 8. EFFECTIVE DATESUBSTANDARD INSURANCE: Republic National Life Insurance Company v. Hall.

Description: This discussion looks at expense rates, inflation, and its effect on premiums. Also discussed are the issues that insurance companies may face as a result of the threat of severe manpower shortages.

Description: This presentation is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The speakers discuss per policy expenses. Topics include identification of expenses directly dependent on number of policies, impact on determining premium rates and dividend scales, use of policy fees, interaction with other assumptions, and methods in the U.S., Canada, and other countries to grade premiums by policy size.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses' fourth annual expense study – the 2004 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. A Per Policy Index for first year expenses and a Per Policy Inforce Index for operating expenses is developed as a high level basis of comparison.

Description: Book review of A Comprehensive Guide To Measuring And Managing Life Insurance Company Expenses.

Description: A discussion of the 1998 changes to New York’s Expense Limitation Law

Description: A summary of the 2001 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.