Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discussed current underwriting issues including the numerical rating system, mortality experience, and underwriting for pilots and immigrants.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses 3 papers: 'Report on Reserve Standards for Individual and Group Health Insurance Contracts' by the AAA Committee on Health, 'Reserve Principles for Individual Health Insurance' by the Committee for Accident and Health, and 'Structure for Consideration of Health Coverage Valuation Standards' by an NAIC Health Subcommittee of Standing Technical Advisory Group.

Description: This discussion at an SOA Regional Meeting covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.

Description: Various methods of accounting for a block of in-force business acquired at the time of purchase have been proposed and used. This paper describes nine such methods, analyzing each by the use of a very simple model office. Followed by submitted discussions of the article

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented trends in GAAP and statuatory financial statements. Topics included: actuarial certifications, GAAP for participating insurance, GAAP for mutual companies, amortizing acquisition expenses, apropriate surplus levels, asset valuation, and materiality. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: Discusses professional statutory valuation standards, provides an update on the proposal of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF], and discusses minimum state requirements and federal income tax deductibility for reserves. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about pros and cons of the NAIC recommended rate filing guidelines, pros and cons of renewal rating practices of MET and individual major medical business. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This discussion examines the effect continued inflation has on the pricing process. Additionally, if the current dividend scales should be hedged for future inflationary impacts and if there is a change in product demand or sales as a result of inflation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: The principal objective of this paper is to remind actuaries of the rather significant misconceptions and distortions commonly encountered in the use of individual accident and health insurance loss ratios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Presented at June 1980 Spring Meeting. Discusses recent developments related to health insurance reserves, the concepts included in several recent papers and committee reports on this topic, and the status of proposed model valuation legislation.