Description: Guidance and interpretation regarding reasonable mortality charge requirement of Section 7702, based from IRS Notice 2004-61, 2004-41 I.R.B. 596 of October 12, 2004.

Description: Discussion of private letter tax rulings on the definition of Cash Surrender Value for purposes of interpreting the definition of life insurance for the policyholder's taxation of the contracts.

Description: This 1981 session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.

Description: This presentation from Session 20PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting examines the major trends in insurance laboratory testing from 1980 to 1985, with an emphasis on why blood testing thresholds were lowered dramatically in the mid-1980s and why those thresholds will persist into the next century. The value of liver function testing is examined as a case study in protective value. Issues addressed include: 1. What is the real impact of human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]-1 testing [sentinel effect]? 2. The unique pay-offs from liver function tests, 3. Clinical medicine mortality versus underwritten mortality: overcoming problems caused by different perspectives, and 4. Cotinine pays the freight? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: In session 75 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists explore practical considerations of maintaining compliance with federal income tax definition of life insurance rules. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Article Board Of Governors by Bog in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: This article discusses various approaches currently being used to sell term insurance over or with the assistance of the internet.

Description: Panelists discuss aspects of corporate-owned life insurance: in light of recent tax-law changes, compensation flexibility, policyholder administrative concerns, and the impact of low interest rates. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Panelelists at this session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting present their thoughts on how life and disability risk assessment and underwriting might be performed in the 21st century. Focus is on how technology can change and speed up the process.

Description: This teaching session was presneted at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Houston. The session presented an overview and various considerations related to Estate Planning.