Description: Topics include: 1. Formation of the American Academy of Actuaries and governance 2. Federal tax developments - discount on life insurance advance premiums, group term life, imputed income factors under individual policy pension trusts, estate tax effect of assignment of group life coverage 3. Newly created Servicemen's Group Life Insurance - plan summary.

Description: These are legal notes concerning policy owner federal income tax, taxation to an agent for expenses for sales convention travel, claims contest on a policy with false statements on the application, timing on surrender of a life insurance policy immediately before death, permitted investment by a life insurance company in a property/casualty company, extraterritorial issues pertaining to regulation of group life insurance, and tax deduction for reserves on pension contracts covering its own employees.

Description: The panel provided a basis for discussing the implications of the new tax code to life insurance and associated products, including annuities and accident and health insurance, but no discussion of the taxation of insurance companies.

Description: This is a discussion about 1959 Act dealing with federal income tax on life insurance companies. Specific topics include: A. Impact the new tax law has had on: i the investment policies of individual companies, ii company accounting systems and procedures, iii actuarial bases for new contracts? B. What principles have been followed in allocating the federal income tax among the annual statement lines of business? How is the assessment to a line of business with a loss from operations established? Is the tax on the interest on surplus allocated on some general basis or with regard to the relative contributions of the different lines to the accumulated surplus? C. How is the tax taken into account in asset share tests and dividend scale determinations?

Description: After outlining some of the issues involved in the taxation of life insurance companies, this paper describes the tax consequences of various strategic courses of action by life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959.

Description: This paper was written to demonstrate that universal life and indeterminate premium products are similar to participating plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted.

Description: This paper examined two interrelated aspects of federal income taxation of life insurance companies. First, a common-sense approach to the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 was developed. Second, marginal tax rates for Phase III companies was developed.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to set forth a mathematical technique which in the author's experience has proved useful in testing the tax implications of various management actions.

Description: This section presents multiple insurance-related legal cases from 1954: 1. AVIATION EXCLUSlON PILOT: Ezell v. Atlantic Life Insurance Company, 2. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY FEDERAL INCOME TAX-OIL ROYALTIES AND BONUS: Great National Life Insurance Company v. Campbell, 3. SIMILAR CORPORATE NAMESADMISSlON TO Do BUSINESS IN STATE : United Life Insurance Company v. United Insurance Company, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITY MILITARY EXCLUSION: Langlas v. Iowa Life Insurance Company, 5. STATUTE REQUIRING COPY OF APPLICATION TO BE ATTACHED-FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY: Wheeler v. Ben Hur Life Association, 6. BENEFICIARY'S RIGHT TO ASCERTAIN AND TO PAY PREMIUM: American Life Insurance Company v. Hauer, 7. QUARTERLY PREMIUM IN EXCESS OF ONE-QUARTER OF ANNUAL RATE: Cohen v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. SETTLEMENT OPTION-TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall vs. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. DEATH DUTIESLIABILITY OF COMPANY UNDER ANNUITY: Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company v. Dimond, 10. DELIVERY OF POLICYPOLICY MAILED TO AGENT: Mid-Continent Life Insurance Company vs. Dees,