Description: On Dec. 29, 1973 President Nixon signed into law the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, which authorizes $375 million to be used by the DHEW to stimulate the establishment and development of HMO's over the next five years. This article describes the status of the regulations and the development of additional HMO's.

Description: Discussion of the insurance industry in Ireland and the related regulatory and tax issues.

Description: This paper considers the development of the insurance and investment markets in the EC from an historical and legal point of view. The likely changes as a result of the Single European Act are also considered along with possible ways of ensuring the act is met and the role of the actuary in that process. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 1.

Description: This article discusses regulatory proposals and developments at both the state and federal level that call for small insurer vigilance.

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

Description: The article discusses the proposed revisions to the AOMR Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum and how it will affect insurance companies.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses banking deregulation and the banking industry comparing banking products and distribution systems to insurance products and insurer distribution systems.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting is about the FASB's preliminary views on pension accounting issues and the shortcomings of the views from the actuarial perspective.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers pending tax legislation with respect to life insurance companies, policyholder taxation and the current legislative outlook.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses health insurance including the topics of the Washington loss ratio report, problems which lead to regulatory difficulties later on, claims monitoring, setting claim reserves and pricing individual health policies.