Description: This presentation, session number 97PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The presenters look at the adequacy of state insurance regulation by examining the purpose and intent of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of state regulation, and “whether the public interest is best served by 1 the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or 2 some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session experts from the regulatory environment and from the insurance industry discussed whether the public interest is best served by the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting examines the background and reasons leading to recent Canadian and U.S. insurance company failures, covering the roles of management, actuaries, rating agencies, and regulators. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. The panel presents the status of recent legislative proposals and current election debates, and then focuses more attention on the potential longer-term directions for the health-care system.