Description: This session of the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium presents the highlights of the sensitivity study the Canadian Institute of Actuaries has undertaken in preparation for the adoption of GAAP accounting for life companies.

Description: This session discussed health insurance issues such as the taxation of employer health benefits and the calculations of tax health reserves. Canadian medical and disability insurance plans are discussed. Also discussed is transplant coverages. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 in San Francisco

Description: This panel discussion focuses on group long-term disability insurance.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on group long-term disability insurance. The panel examines trends in termination & frequency rates, underwriting & product costs in anticipation of a recession, the impact of human rights on benefit design, anti-selection on pregnancy benefits and benefit design with regards to age discrimination. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This is a discussion about the Opinion No. 8 Bulletin on accounting for the cost of pension plans that was recently issued by the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Bulletin No. 21 recently issued by the Committee on Accounting and Auditing Research of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the effect these bulletins will have on the preparation of actuarial valuations of pension plans. Also discussed is the use of level-premium life insurance in connection with employee benefit plans and the underwriting, actuarial and other problems encountered in the design and marketing of such plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 54.