Description: This article is about the very rapid pace of Health care reform on both the national and state level. The challenge is to ensure that viable financing vehicles are developed for cost effective health care delivery.

Description: This is a series of reports on topics including: 1. Recent legislative developments, 2. Report on Joint Actuarial Committee Meeting, and 3. Position statement by Robert J. Myers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of pensions today in this country, with a few backward glances on how we got here and a little contemplation of whither we may go perhaps, willy-nilly. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This section presents and summarizes insurance-related legal cases of 1953 including: 1. GROUP ANNUITY CONTRACTPERPETUAL OBLIGATION: Freeport Sulphur Company v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, 2. SERVICE OF PROCESSUNAUTHORIZED INSURER: Parmalee v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, 3. ORAL PLEDGE OR ASSIGNMENTCREDITOR'S RIGHT: Commercial National Bank v. Chapman, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Weissman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 5. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL COMPANYJURISDICTION OF INSURANCE COMMISSlONER: Allyn v. Hull, 6. AVIATION EXCLUSIONPARACHUTE JUMP: Smith v. Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 7. SETTLEMENT OPTIONTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. PURCHASE OF HOME OFFICE PROPERTYINSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL: Guardian Life Insurance Company vs. Bohlinger, 9. LOAN VALUE: DISABILITY AND DOUBLE INDEMNITY RESERVES: Chastang v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 10. CONVERSION OF GROUP INSURANCESUICIDE: Lineberry v. Security Life and Trust Company, 11. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows

Description: This discussion is about the actuarial considerations that should surround proposals in Congress for reinsurance of health plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1954, Vol. 6, No. 14.

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Description: SAVER Summit Looks at Retirement Needs and Savings Plans by Anna M. Rappaport from Pension Section News, August 1998, Issue No. 37.

Description: This article summarizes the Wharton Conference focusing on retirement policy and changing retirement policy. From Pension Section News, September 2004, Issue No. 56.

Description: In this article, author Anna Rappaport discusses highlights and wake-up calls from the December, 2009 Annual Retirement Security Symposium.

Description: This article summarizes the following insurance-related legal cases from 1951 and 1952: 1. Incontestable Clause-Effect of Death Within Period: Prudential Insurance Company v. Ruby, 2. Premium Tax-Annuity Considerations: Corporation Commission v. Equitable Life Assurance Society, 3. Murder of Insured by Beneficiary-Rights of Contingent Beneficiary: Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance Company, 4. Double Indemnity-Right to Autopsy-Demand within Reasonable Time: Reardon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 5. Insurance Commissioner-Limitations of Authority-Revocation of Company's License to do Business: Bankers Life and Casualty Company v. Cravey, 6. Effective Date of Policy-Date for Payment of Renewal Premiums: Lentin v. Continental Assurance Company, 7. Group Insurance-Bank Depositors: Mutual Bank & Trust Company v. Shaffner, 8. Killing of Insured by Beneficiary-Rights of Contingent Beneficiary: Bullock v. Expressmen's Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. Aviation Exclusion-Conflict with Incontestable Statute: Jordan v. Western States Life Insurance Company, 10. Creditors' Rights-Endowment Contract-Exemption Statute: Fox v. Swartz, 11. Settlement Option-Testamentary Disposition: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, and 12. Aviation Exclusion-Aeronautic Flight: Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Reed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1952, Vol. 4, No. 8.