Description: Author discusses issues related to federal regulation of insurance.

Description: Discusses legislation being proposed in various states that would apply to Small Face Amount Policies, SFAPs.

Description: A discussion of the events of the NAIC Summer National Meeting in Seattle.

Description: This article is the testimony of the author to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance expressing his views about a proposed law to allow a domestic mutual life insurer to reorganize as a stock company that is owned by a mutual holding company.

Description: This article talks about assets and liabilities as they related to Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Small companies face numerous challenges and opportunities when developing supplemental health insurance products. This is particularly true because of the competitive nature of these products and the innovations happening in the supplemental health market. This article explores the challenges regarding rating, the volatile regulatory environment, product flexibility, and distribution. In addition, the article identifies competitive advantages that small companies may have in the supplemental health market.

Description: A discussion of the contents of this issue of smalltalk including regulatory issues that impact insurance and smaller insurance companies. Also discussed are two major regulatory issues, health care reform and financial regulatory reform.

Description: Author highlights historical nonforfeiture and federal tax law changes, as they have impacted life product designs, in prognosticating about future product designs.

Description: Actuarial Guideline 38 has been one of the most discussed reserving changes in the past year. First proposed in late summer of 2004, several industry groups and LHATF have worked to reach consensus on this issue. The current draft is a compromise, sometimes referred to as the “CEO compromise” since the CEOs of several leading life insurers negotiated the language. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

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.