Description: This article reviews proposals in the Carter Report for additional taxation on Canadian insurance companies and their policyholders.

Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.

Description: This article focuses on the differences between U.S. and Canadian policy making processes, especially as it relates to social insurance.

Description: This article discusses the regulatory changes in Bermuda. There is an international initiative to review all insurance regulation by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors IAIS and the International Monetary Fund IMF.

Description: This article reviews the topics discussed at the December 2004 meeting of the Life and Health Actuarial task force. The covered topics include Actuarial Guideline 38 and Reserves for Variable Annuities C-3 Phase 2 reserves.

Description: This session discussion is about current developments in the legislative situation and proposed changes, continuing unresolved audit issues, emerging issues of 1984 and later audits, policyholder taxation issues and alternate minimum tax AMT. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: A review of a pamphlet which described the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1977.

Description: An overview of the formation of the Committee of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, initiated by the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics, in response to the need for statistical advisory committees to government agencies to promote better data collection and dissemination, contracting, forms clearance, planning, coordination, monitoring, staffing, and strengthening of agency functions.

Description: Article Confidentiality Of Federal Statistics by Johansen in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This article is the testimony of the author to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance expressing his views about a proposed law to allow a domestic mutual life insurer to reorganize as a stock company that is owned by a mutual holding company.