Description: This discussion at a SOA 1967 Regional Meeting covers individual life and health insurance topics including individual health loss of time coverages, life underwriting, reinsurance, individual annuity retirement plans in Canada, market testing new products.

Description: This discussion seeks to determine if: 1. Is there justification for paying higher rates of commissions to experienced agents? 2. Is grading of commission rates by size of policy appropriate for Ordinary insurance? 3. In what ways have normal commission scales been modified in connection with the sale of permanent insurance on the minimum deposit plan? 4. What practical methods are available to maintain consistency between the levels of commission payments for pension plans funded by means of individual policies and group annuities?

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about issues facing new companies including the areas of marketing, personnel, capital and surplus, financial projections, and communications.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: This informal discussion looks at the study of Section 213: What problems are involved, and along what lines does the greatest promise of satisfactory solutions lie. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, National Service Life Insurance by William A. Poissant. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This discussion explores lapse experience on business financed at or near issue through policy or bank loans, the amount such financed business is increasing or decreasing, and the extent the exercise of the Fifth Dividend Option in practice is being confined to policyholders interested in minimum deposit policies.

Description: This is a discussion about agency matters such as: new agents, experienced agents, general agents and managers, agent survival rates, etc. Also discussed is the impact that Medicare will have on private health insurance business. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

Description: This paper is an attempt to review some of the phases of agency management in which the actuary can help the sales executive. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No.1.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues smaller companies face with the 1958 CSO table and recent actions.