Description: Presented at May 19996 Spring Meeting. This session focuses on emerging compensation plans in the life insurance industry: levelized commissions, potential changes in NY regulations, compensation in alternative channels, salaried agents, innovative programs.

Description: Discusses making changes to non-guaranteed elements in interest-sensitive business, participating business, and indeterminate-premium business. Considers equity between newer and older blocks of business. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Discusses the reasons for changing emphasis on reserve strengthening programs and looks at methods adopted to emphasize the reserve character of undistributed surplus.

Description: Overview of evolving industry trends and examples of how life insurers in Canada are innovating.

Description: This is a short response to the paper, 'Group Conversion Charges - Accounting for Annual Statement' by Dickinson C. Duffield, which discusses an alternative way to account for group conversion charges.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses new business developments which have led to a resurgence in term life sales and profitability.

Description: Discusses some of the industry dynamics driving change in the industry distribution and compensation systems, the general-agency/career-agent system at MassMutual, the branch-manager and PPGA-like systems at Penn Mutual, and New York's recent letter on agent-owned reinsurance companies. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This discussion reviews changes in practices and procedures which have been made with resulting reduction of expense in connection with the following: Administration and valuation of supplementary contracts, collection of monthly premiums, underwriting of new applicants, and preparation and printing of rare books and policies.

Description: This panel discussion examines marketing distribution systems, discussing the marketing problems and opportunities facing life insurers. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 3.