Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of the AIDS epidemic, legal challenges to risk classification practices, impact on practices resulting from these challenges and from trends in areas such as preferred risks and guaranteed issues, possible future developments in underwriting and risk classification and how they may impact product design and marketing.

Description: This session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.

Description: From a teaching session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Discussion of the requirements under statutory codification that are of interest to actuaries. Topics included: • Policy classification • Deferred taxes • Accident and health issues • Disclosure • State differences • Implementation issues

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting focused on return on investment in a rate-regulated environment. Topics included current rate-regulated environments, current use of ROI, ROI in price setting and future rate regulation controls. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This presentation, session number 4PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists pose this question: “now that the Financial Services Modernization Law is about a year old, how are banks and insurance companies repositioning themselves?” Topics include new or modified strategies, any imminent changes in the federal law, whether legislative efforts shifted to state laws, status of the state privacy laws and impact on customer segmentation, Leading Banks-In-Insurance Report trends 10/00 Association of Banks-In-Insurance, and how products, distribution, and competition for the insurance industry will be redefined. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses regulatory aspects, coronary risk factor analysis, guaranteed issue replacement programs, the economic value of the attending physician's statement and chronological age versus biological age. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the Norris case, the Fair Insurance Practices Act and HR100, known as the Non-Discrimination in Insurance Act and the implications of these current developments regarding risk classification in the insurance industry and pension plans. From Record of the Society Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. The stated objective of this session was to provide a good feel of what financial service convergence means. It included a legislative update of what was happening in Washington in 1999 and discussions on customer segmentation, on bancassurance products, and distribution channels within a bank.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about product trends, state regulations, disclosure requirements and tax status. Topics included: 1. The development of the NAIC model regulation on accelerated benefits. 2. Some state-specific responses to accelerated benefit products. 3. The tax status of accelerated benefits. 4. ACLI comments regarding several shortcomings in the model regulation.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the demise of a company, the crisis and the solution.