Description: Recognizing the benefit for actuarial discussions about how COVID-19 will affect our work, the Smaller Insurance Company Section of the Society of Actuaries hosted “COVID-19: What a Smaller Insurance Company Actuary Needs to Know Virtual Town Hall” on April 17, 2020. The following delves into these presentations and discussions.

Description: Discussion of regulatory action on the Appointed Actuary and Participating Insurance.

Description: Part 3 of a 3 installment series dealing with the Moss Oversight Committee dealing with sales disclosure for life insurance products

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

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 11. This is a debate regarding two approaches to Life Insurance Illustrations: The Range approach vs. the Current Scale approach

Description: This article describes the pre-HIPAA small group market and identify some of the key changes to this market resulting from HIPAA particularly guaranteed issue and renewal and restriction of pre-existing conditions and.

Description: This article describes how Long-Term Care riders attached to Life Insurance policies provide real insurance value at a reasonable cost and allow life insurance companies to compete on a basis other than cost.

Description: This paper is from the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. It was presented at the 1956 Spring Meetings of the Society of Actuaries for discussion. The author presents and discusses the provisions of typical agents’ and general agents’ retirement plans. The author then discusses the cost limitations of section 213 of the New York Insurance Law as they apply to agents’ compensation in general, and retirement plans in particular, including a technique acceptable to the New York Insurance Department for demonstrating compliance. The author demonstrates the practical application of this technique with a model submission.

Description: This article discusses the the 1998 alternartive XXX model regulations and the potential tax impact on the definition of life insurance and on reserve deductions associated therewith.

Description: This article addresses the need for overhauling the present system of life insurance regulation in the US and how the Optional Federal Charter would address this need.