Description: Task Force report on life insurance company sales illustration practices from the perspective of the consumer. The study analyzes how well current illustration practices serve their primary functions of: 1. showing the consumer their policy values and premium payments over time, and 2. projecting best estimates of future performance and providing cost and performance comparisons with other policies.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1957, including a case regarding interpretation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 with amendments, FIT deduction of group disability benefits, FTC jurisdiction over advertising, group life employee ineligibility and incontestable clause, date of reinstatement, and claims issues.

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.