Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: This article provides a summary of selected sessions of the October 2010 NAIC meeting.

Description: Session 4C: The Impact of Medical Advancements on Disability and Group Life

Description: The Mortality and Longevity and Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Programs are pleased to make available a report summarizing an expert panel brought together to discuss the impact of wildfires on U.S. health and life insurers.

Description: In this webcast, the presenter will cover mental health in insurance products. Learn about the public’s increased interest in mental health and the ways insurers can meet this demand, how we can embed such offerings in insurance and how to successfully expand mental health coverage to those in need. The second speaker will cover how cancer and the simplified issue insurance market has evolved in Korea. In this session, the speaker will share the ease of selling / onboarding, thus allowing a greater penetration of products.

Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

Description: How do we take a Minimum Viable Products (MVP) approach to launch new insurance products? Join this moderated discussion and focus on three key development aspects: Distribution, Systems, and the design and pricing of the Insurance product itself. Come discuss reasons to choose an MVP approach and how it solves many of the product launch challenges.

Description: This article summarizes a recent session at an SOA meeting that presented tips on improving and speeding the product filing process.

Description: LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA), and TAI have collaborated on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public. The Individual Life COVID-19 Project Work Group (Work Group) was formed as a collaboration of LIMRA, RGA, the SOA, and TAI to design, implement, and create the study and to produce and distribute a variety of analyses. This report is the fifth public release from this collaboration and contains the results of a cause of death analysis focused on how the rates of death for various causes were impacted throughout the pandemic period through the first quarter of 2021.

Description: Article examines a proposed amendment to the MAP-21 Act that would have changed a number of tax requirements regarding so-called life settlements.