Description: This section presents multiple insurance-related legal cases from 1954: 1. AVIATION EXCLUSlON PILOT: Ezell v. Atlantic Life Insurance Company, 2. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY FEDERAL INCOME TAX-OIL ROYALTIES AND BONUS: Great National Life Insurance Company v. Campbell, 3. SIMILAR CORPORATE NAMESADMISSlON TO Do BUSINESS IN STATE : United Life Insurance Company v. United Insurance Company, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITY MILITARY EXCLUSION: Langlas v. Iowa Life Insurance Company, 5. STATUTE REQUIRING COPY OF APPLICATION TO BE ATTACHED-FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY: Wheeler v. Ben Hur Life Association, 6. BENEFICIARY'S RIGHT TO ASCERTAIN AND TO PAY PREMIUM: American Life Insurance Company v. Hauer, 7. QUARTERLY PREMIUM IN EXCESS OF ONE-QUARTER OF ANNUAL RATE: Cohen v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. SETTLEMENT OPTION-TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall vs. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. DEATH DUTIESLIABILITY OF COMPANY UNDER ANNUITY: Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company v. Dimond, 10. DELIVERY OF POLICYPOLICY MAILED TO AGENT: Mid-Continent Life Insurance Company vs. Dees,

Description: After outlining some of the issues involved in the taxation of life insurance companies, this paper describes the tax consequences of various strategic courses of action by life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper examined two interrelated aspects of federal income taxation of life insurance companies. First, a common-sense approach to the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 was developed. Second, marginal tax rates for Phase III companies was developed.

Description: This paper was written to demonstrate that universal life and indeterminate premium products are similar to participating plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted.

Description: Section 818c of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 provides, for companies holding other than net level premium reserves, a choice of two methods: exact revaluation or approximate revaluation to this basis. This paper discusses the impact of the choice on the level of a company's tax reserves. A discussion paper follows.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Valuation of Reversionary Interests Involving Two or More Lives for Federal Tax Purposes by Charles G. Groeschell and William M. Snell. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This discussion looks at how the allocation of income tax by line of business is handled, how tax liability may be estimated for annual statement purposes and if it has been found desirable to employ special tax consultants.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to set forth a mathematical technique which in the author's experience has proved useful in testing the tax implications of various management actions.

Description: These are legal notes concerning policy owner federal income tax, taxation to an agent for expenses for sales convention travel, claims contest on a policy with false statements on the application, timing on surrender of a life insurance policy immediately before death, permitted investment by a life insurance company in a property/casualty company, extraterritorial issues pertaining to regulation of group life insurance, and tax deduction for reserves on pension contracts covering its own employees.

Description: Topics include: 1. Formation of the American Academy of Actuaries and governance 2. Federal tax developments - discount on life insurance advance premiums, group term life, imputed income factors under individual policy pension trusts, estate tax effect of assignment of group life coverage 3. Newly created Servicemen's Group Life Insurance - plan summary.