Description: Article from The Actuary January 1993 Volume 27, No. 1 highlights solvency measures and what happens if they don't work. Includes discussion on US guaranty association and Canadian CompCorp.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: Book review of Employee Benefits, written by Burton T. Beam, Jr., and John J. McFadden. Published in 1985 by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. 486 pages plus bibliography and index.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article discusses the activities and goals of the Product Development Section of the SOA. Future activities will include joint sessions with other sections since product development issues sometimes relate to financial reporting. reinsurance, investments and nontraditional marketing.

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This article looks at the options for terminally ill people with life insurance - loans, accelerated benefit options, and viaticals - and asks why more actuaries are not involved.

Description: This article reviews the significant changes to the AMT that will affect life insurance in the 1990s. The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4

Description: Discusses the relationship between true surplus and valuation surplus upon termination of a policy, using formulas.

Description: This article is a detailed historical chronicle circa 1870 of a dispute concerning dividend distribution that was to draw into the fray university professors, a future justice of the Supreme Court, the Massachusetts insurance commissioner, and the daily press.

Description: Some life insurers in Canada are pioneering a creative new noncontractual approach to meeting the financial needs of terminally ill insureds who may need funds for medical and living expenses. Funds are made available by lending a portion of the death benefit to the terminally ill insured. This is a loan against future death proceeds it is independent of loans against any cash value, which would be used first.