Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 Discussion of expert witness testimony, the process involved in preparing expert witness reports, and the pitfalls.Also discussion of the differences between the role of expert witness versus a consultant to a lawyer. The proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice on expert witness work is also incorporated. Learn from two skilled professionals about the reason for expert witness testimony, the process involved in preparing expert witness reports, and the joys and pitfalls encountered.

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The topic of discussion was Individual Life Products, current economics, inflation, the responsibility of the actuary, and guides to professional conduct.

Description: Presented at 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Presents updates from the NAIC and its Life & Health Actuarial Task Force, and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: This 1977 session presented dramatic scenarios of situations related to professional conduct. The audience was asked to react to the situations and provide their thoughts on the appropriateness of the situations. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 4.

Description: Discusses the life company actuary's responsibility to the insurance buying public, and the relationship to his concurrent responsibility to the agency force, stockholders, and present policyholders. Also discusses the employee benefit actuary's responsibility to plan beneficiaries and the relationship to his concurrent responsibility to employers and unions, and the public's interest in actuarial techniques and its need for meaningful actuarial explanation.