Description: This meeting session occurred at the SOA's 1980 June Meeting. The topic was a Federal Trade Commission Report issued on insurance copmany practices with regards to life insurance. This report identified four areas of concern regarding consumer value and recommended changes.

Description: Panelists, along with significant audience participation, discuss the proposed changes in tax law for life insurance [which became Section 7702A], company reactions [especially regarding in-force-dividend policy] to the dropping new-money yield rates available, the nascent long-term-care-insurance [LTCI] and accelerated death benefit [ADB] coverages, group universal life products [GULPs], leveraged corporate-owned life insurance [COLI], and the impact of the recent stock-market dip on variable universal life [VUL] sales. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.