Description: The Life Insurance industry is undergoing significant change and the Product Development Section provides our members with tools to help navigate this change.

Description: Over the last two decades, three versions of the Valuation Basic Tables were developed. In this article, two key participants share their experience.

Description: The article describes the sessions at the upcoming annual meeting.

Description: An analysis of the 1999-2011 experience of all Blues plans of betweeen $1.8 and $3.8 billion in annual revenue in 2010 to determine if there is any empirical evidence of an industry underwriting cycle. The analysis shows there is no such evidence.

Description: Diagnostic coding in dental is in its infancy. This article explores the use of medical diagnostic coding and how it may transform dental care in various ways.

Description: Many executives are talking about predictive analytics uses in health insurance.

Description: A brief description of current events and techniques that may impact trend models.

Description: This article contains a condensed summary and excerpt from the fourth white paper in the Commercial Health Care: What’s Next? series.

Description: Update on accounting and capital/RBC issues subsequent to tax reform.

Description: The article discusses the developments thus far with the adoption of the NAIC Valuation Manual and what steps still lie ahead. It also discusses the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force’s response to the NAIC’s VM-20 Impact Study. In general, outcomes of the Phase III testing support the suggestion that the modifications made to VM-20 as a result of the NAIC Impact Study made progress in addressing the excessive conservatism demonstrated in the Phase I and Phase II testing.