Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including Unisex rating, UL reserves and non-forfeiture values, policies without guaranteed cash surrender values, and smoker/non-smoker mortality tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews NAIC regulation of reinsurance, problems of reinsurance coverage on internal replacements and rewrites, a short Reinsurance Section business report and other current topics. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting covers the market for payroll deduction life insurance, organization and service for this market, the administration required, the regulatory issues and the experience.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addressed the new risk-based capital requirement. Topics included: 1. How reasonable is the framework of basing the formulas on simplistic application of the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 risks? 2. Will this be effective in stanching the proliferation of RBC formulas by the regulatory bodies? 3. Which lines of business are treated relatively badly by the formulas? 4. Is there realistically anything that can be done to prevent company comparisons and renkings? 5. What are the administrative problems faced by the regulators in the oversight process requirement that this will create?

Description: Discussion as to whether within an organization an actuary's regulatory role can conflict with his business-oriented role or be aligned with the strategic goals of the company.

Description: This article discusses HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1997 and the many NAIC model laws affecting health insurance and paricularly how Arkansas is facing the post-HIPAA complexities.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author summarizes recent court cases involving life insurance law.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session covered the practical aspects of implementing the Statement of Position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. Specific items include SA reporting, multiple account value products, guaranteed minimum death and living benefit reserves and sales inducements

Description: This is the SOA website page displaying the table of contents for Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Implications series of essays.