Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss changes in investment policy over the last ten years, direct placement financing, differences among companies by size, equity investments and real estate ownership. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This section contains book reviews and summaries of recently published works on subjects including demography, savings in the U.S., life company state examinations, private pensions, Industrial insurance, medical care, and union welfare plans.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This discussion on major medical expense insurance examines the trends in the types of plans sold, popularity of the comprehensive type of medical expense insurance plan, special problems, and dependent coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications on a variety of topics.

Description: This discussion focuses on group insurance, the experience under industry-wide group policies, problems in the writing of small groups, the trend of hospital and surgical expense claim ratios, experiments providing medical expense benefits for pensioners, and examines the progress made in developing catastrophe coverages.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications on subjects that include U.K. social insurance, financing of hospital care, state examinations of life companies, approximate valuation of life and health insurance, mortality forecasting, and valuing estate tax.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1960: 1. 'Ensuring Medical Care for the Aged' by M. Spiegelman, 2. 'All Lines Insurance' edited by D.McGill, 3. 'Alternative Methods of Financing Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance' by J. J. Carroll, and 4. 'Installing Electronic Procedures-A Progress Report' by J. J. Finelli. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: 1956 Transactions of the SOA, Volume 8. This section contains book reviews and summaries of recent publications.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.