Description: Feature article about the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) adopting its First Amendment to Regulation 213, Principle-Based Reserving (PBR) and the affects it will cause.

Description: A discussion of the events of the NAIC Summer National Meeting in Seattle.

Description: This article explores Simplified Issue SI as a product. There is a small-company slant toward SI whole life because the vast majority of my experience with SI is in the senior market. However, most of what will be discussed still applies to all SI.

Description: This article gives an overview of the NAIC codification project, which describes procedures and methods for compiling statutory financial statements. A number of accounting principles included in codification are described.

Description: This article summarizes current regulatory activity discussed at the Spring 2009 meetings of the N.A.I.C. and the National Council of Insurance Legislators.

Description: Author identifies the issues, especially as they relate to smaller insurers, and then lists some provisions of current pending federal legislation.

Description: Read the June 2020 issue of Small Talk published by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Author discusses issues related to federal regulation of insurance.

Description: This article addresses the expected impact that the 2001 CSO table will have on pricing and product structure for UL plans.

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.