Description: This article describes the increasing problems in the product filing and forms approval process under state regulation. It also describes the conclusions and product filing uniformity vision that includes the formation of CARFRA which stands for Coordinated Advertising, Rate and Form Review Authority.

Description: This article discusses the history of the small life insurance policies in light of the current NAIC investigation into the treatment of small face value life insurance policies.

Description: Legislation introduced in Florida senate to ban sale of Industrial Life and greatly restrict sales of other Small Face Amount Policies, SFAPs.

Description: Chairperson’s letter discussing changes that occurred between 2008 and 2009.

Description: November 2010 issue of The Smaller Insurance Company Section newsletter, Small Talk.

Description: Discusses the content of the web page of the Smaller Insurance Company Section.

Description: Discussing how examinations of asset adequacy analysis, AAA, and risk-based capital, RBC, by state insurance department examiners can go much more smoothly with good preparation and documentation of both assumptions and derivation of assumptions.

Description: Article summarizing two conference calls from late 2011 on regulatory issues of interest to smaller insurance companies. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: Actuarial models have always been an important tool for helping companies project future results and understand risks. As complex models have started to become critical components of the reporting and compliance processes, however, models have vaulted to new levels of importance—and of scrutiny. This has raised everyone’s interest in the management of models, and by implication, in their ability to control the inherent model risk. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: Regulatory Developments Applicable to Small Company Actuaries