Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications on subjects that include U.K. social insurance, financing of hospital care, state examinations of life companies, approximate valuation of life and health insurance, mortality forecasting, and valuing estate tax.

Description: This discussion at as SOA 1968 Regional Meeting focuses on issues for smaller companies including expense analysis, new products, variable annuities, interim financial statements, and taxes.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting focuses on issues for smaller companies including expense analysis, adjusted earnings, variable annuities, agency operations, and interim financial statements.

Description: This discussion examines the changes made in underwriting limits and new business expenses, operational changes to improve the valuation process, the use of technology, and the effect of field sales offices also being a point of premium collection.

Description: This discussion looks at the advantages to an inclusion of a temporary war clause in all policies, factors affecting premiums for females, the SOA's stance on accident and health research, and the proposed new form of U.S. annual statements.

Description: This report by the Joint Actuarial Committee on Financial Reporting discusses the proper role of the actuary in reporting on the financial operations of life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1971, Vol. 23, Pt. 2D, No. 65.

Description: This is a short response to the paper, 'Group Conversion Charges - Accounting for Annual Statement' by Dickinson C. Duffield, which discusses an alternative way to account for group conversion charges.