Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This includes study years 2009-2015.

Description: Several presentations that contain analyses on the SOA’s Individual Life Experience Committee’s 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Data are available below. The final 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Report and data will be published later this year.

Description: Discusses Internal Revenue Service Ruling 2011-9. Since ruling now applies to all taxpayers, not just the taxpayer in a prior private letter ruling, taxpayers that have taken a contrary position in past tax years may need to amend prior tax returns.

Description: Author highlights historical nonforfeiture and federal tax law changes, as they have impacted life product designs, in prognosticating about future product designs.

Description: The presenters will dig into the little rider that most actuaries don't spend much time thinking about. A regulator, a direct writer and a consultant will discuss their thoughts on this rider and point out areas where actuaries should focus before deeming it insignificant. Topics will include the current study underway to update the industry experience study (most recently done in 1952), underwriting considerations, interactions with other riders, benefit designs, unique issues on UL policies, tax implications and reserving considerations

Description: This article is a discussion about the life settlement industry and the tax considerations for life insurance bought and sold in the secondary market.

Description: This article is a discussion of the proposal to tax the inside build-up in life insurance policies and the consequences if it were to be adopted.

Description: Updates on partial annuitization and exhanges, prevailing CSO valuation mortality tables, disclosure of offshore accounts through FATCA.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker