Description: Cancer Insurance is among the latest products singled out for assault. Consumer advocates, Congressional committees, federal agencies and State insurance departments all have had their well-publicized say. Some of the last-named have wielded the executioner’s axe, prohibiting its issue. This article reviews the arguments against cancer insurance and rebuts them.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: This paper examines the 'King intervaluation method' within the framework of a health insurance valuation system. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 45.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: The Health Section chair reviews the progress and activities of the section after three years of existence.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 3. In this article Deborah Poppel interviews Paul Barnhart regarding the controversies surrounding the proposed heath insurance reserve standards.