Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session discussed the considerations in performing due diligence on a reinsurance partner and the impact of deteriorating credit quality. Topics included: 1. Letters of credit 2. Arbitration and disputes. 3. Impact of mergers and acquisitions. 4. Offshore reinsurance. 5. NAIC issues.

Description: This article summarizes the following insurance-related legal cases from 1951 and 1952: 1. Incontestable Clause-Effect of Death Within Period: Prudential Insurance Company v. Ruby, 2. Premium Tax-Annuity Considerations: Corporation Commission v. Equitable Life Assurance Society, 3. Murder of Insured by Beneficiary-Rights of Contingent Beneficiary: Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance Company, 4. Double Indemnity-Right to Autopsy-Demand within Reasonable Time: Reardon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 5. Insurance Commissioner-Limitations of Authority-Revocation of Company's License to do Business: Bankers Life and Casualty Company v. Cravey, 6. Effective Date of Policy-Date for Payment of Renewal Premiums: Lentin v. Continental Assurance Company, 7. Group Insurance-Bank Depositors: Mutual Bank & Trust Company v. Shaffner, 8. Killing of Insured by Beneficiary-Rights of Contingent Beneficiary: Bullock v. Expressmen's Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. Aviation Exclusion-Conflict with Incontestable Statute: Jordan v. Western States Life Insurance Company, 10. Creditors' Rights-Endowment Contract-Exemption Statute: Fox v. Swartz, 11. Settlement Option-Testamentary Disposition: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, and 12. Aviation Exclusion-Aeronautic Flight: Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Reed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1952, Vol. 4, No. 8.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting is a teaching session on futures and options, the applications for them, the roles as a strategy tool and hedging risks. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about federal regulations versus state regulations. Topics included: 1. Status of Dingell/Metzenbaum bills and Industry response. 2. The McCarren-Ferguson Act, and recent developments in that area. 3. Bills that address the issue of redlining in insurance. 4. The Disclosure of Insurance Availability Information bill. 5. Heath care reform initiatives.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about trends in life company impairments and insolvencies. Topics included: 1. Recent insolvencies - are there similar situations waiting to be discovered? 2. How meaningful are current financial statements? 3. What do rating agencies say? How much confidence is there in their ratings? 4. The role of cash-flow testing, AVR/IMR, and risk-based capital formulas.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion was about cash-flow testing as a management tool. The focus was on lessons learned from 1992 CFT and the expectation of lessons that can be learned in the future. Speakers addressed management use of CFT, CFT in risk management, CFT in profit enhancement, and the applicability to assets and liabilities.

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion about group Life and group Accident and Health insurance covered over insurance, medical catastrophe coverage, conversion privilege, and the regulatory environment. From TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, 1953 VOL. 5 NO. 11.

Description: This is the presidential address by former President of the Society of Actuaries, Richard C. Guest. He discussed insurance supervision globally, with an emphasis on Canada and the United States.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.