Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: Panel discussion exploring likely future scenarios, encompassing: Balance between state and federal regulation, effects of trends in tax regulation, and implications of all-federal or all-state regulation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 2.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to conduct research and educate health care policymakers on issues including principles for market reform, individual insurance, and risk factors.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panel provides background on the impact of the passage of HR10 in November 1999 on the future of credit insurance, as well as the life insurance industry in general.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 This session addressed aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including a discussion of the history and purpose of the act, processes of compliance and their documentation, identification of key controls and testing for key control effectiveness.

Description: Describes some of the challenges to be overcome in United States regulation of systemic risk. Argues that actuarial contributions can significantly accelerate progress in systemic risk regulation.

Description: A discussion of issues and developments that threaten the collective confidence of the LTC insurance industry, including job cutting, changes in reporting requirements, and compliance audits.

Description: Comments that were sent to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform regarding value-added taxes and the affects on the CPI.

Description: This article reviews the experience and restructuring that has taken place in the life insurance industry since the Asian economic crisis reached Korea. It also discusses the recent trends of the life insurance industry.