Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: To explore the main drivers of the growing force of Chinese Life Insurance Industry.

Description: Guy Thomas develops the theory of “loss coverage,” which is a measure of the extent to which potentially insurable losses are actually compensated by insurance. His main points of difference are: a) Adverse selection in insurance is usually weaker that most commentaries suggest … b) From a public, policy perspective, ‘weak’ adverse selection in insurance is a good thing. … c)… some restrictions on risk classification are a good thing in some insurance markets

Description: Discusses the issues papaer to be released by the International Accounting Standards for Insurance to cover accounting issues for insurance contracts as opposed to insurance companies.

Description: Five industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the life insurance and life reinsurance industry were honored with the Insurance Legends award at ReFocus 2008, the premier conference for reinsurance industry professionals.

Description: Summary of private letter ruling the IRS released in February 2013 regarding a partnership formed to hold and manage bank-owned life insurance contracts. The article follows up another article from the same authors in the May 2012 issue of Taxing Times regarding an earlier ruling on a similar structure.

Description: Doing Illustration Actuary Testing over the Life of a Policy

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addresed life and annuity sales illustrations. Topics included: • Current initiatives from various task forces including those of the AAA, NAIC, ACLI, NALU, and ASCLU. • Have illustrations taken on a life of their own? • What should be done about illustrations, especially by actuaries?