Description: This session is about financial rating systems: The processes, performance, improvement, and the role and impact of risk-based capital requirements.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session covers NAIC 2001 changes to RBC requirements, the impact they have had on regulators, the rating agency reaction and proposed changes for 2002.

Description: This panel will discuss the current status of NAIC activities with respect to risk-based capital RBC. The potential impact on financial reporting with respect to health products, specifically, indemnity, HMO, disability, and nontraditional products will also be discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol.21, No. 4a.

Description: This presentation, session number 97CS, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Using a fictional case study of a class action market conduct related suit against a life insurance company, the presenters discuss the role of the actuary in identifying the problem, quantifying the exposure, and determining the financial consequences of any proposed settlement. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the demise of a company, the crisis and the solution.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel reviews recent litigation, antitrust laws, advertising regulations, and sales illustration regulations.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panel examined the failure of three major life insurance companies in North America: Executive Life, Mutual Benefit, and Confederation Life, changes that have taken place in the aftermath of these failures, and the likelihood of future failures.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 Company representatives and state insurance department representatives addressed issues faced by companies in complying with the form-filing process. In addition, they offered suggestions and guidance in expediting policy form approvals.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.