Q: How Do You Eat An Elephant? The very idea of getting a handle on everything that is going on is mind boggling; but when organized, the elephant can be eaten, a bit at a time. —  Alan B. Peterson, Equitable 1977 – SOA – Corporate Planning: Procedural Aspects, Society of Actuaries – 18p ……

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BGA – Benefit Generating Account This creature called universal life has evolved from a combination of term insurance and a flexible premium annuity to a range of differing products with various design features. Common to any of these variations is the fact that future cash values cannot be determined completely at issue. Cash values (and…

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Q: Should A Life Insurance Policy Be Split? – SIV/CIV High early cash value policies, “premium endowments,” and other policies which overemphasize the cash-value buildup have been around for years. Recently, however, some state insurance departments have been taking a closer look at these policies. At least one state has gone so far as to…

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Q: Who Can Explain How Life Insurance Policies Work? The insider joke about indexed universal-life policies is that it takes an actuary, an attorney and maybe even an engineer to understand how the product works. Some regulators worry that hypothetical projections of savings growth using these indexes are overly rosy and can lead to unrealistic…

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Market Conduct Regulation – Documents 2016 – NCOIL – Market Conduct Surveillance Model Law – 17p Adopted by the NCOIL Executive Committee on November 11, 2006. Readopted by the NCOIL Executive Committee on November 20, 2011 and November 20, 2016. Market Conduct Uniform Examination Outline cga.ct.gov/2004/rpt/2004-R-0172.htm 2004 0211 – OLR Market Research – Insurance Market…

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Arkansas Mike Pickens ?-2003-? – Arkansas Insurance Commissioner 2003 – NAIC President 2003 – SOA – Current Events–Statutory, Society of Actuaries – 26p 2003 0506 – GOV (House) – Increasing the Effectiveness of State Consumer Protection, Sue W. Kelly (R-NY)  —  [BonkNote] Charles D. “Boe” Adams Lifetime Security Life A.L. Williams Bill Clinton Robert T. Shaw Born -…

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Market Analysis NAIC – A Reinforced Commitment: Insurance Regulatory Modernization Action Plan 2006 (updated) – NAIC – A Reinforced Commitment: Insurance Regulatory Modernization Action Plan – 20p 2003 1105 – GOV (House) – Reforming Insurance Regulation: Making the Marketplace More Competitive for Consumers, Richard H. Baker (R-LA) [PDF-200p, VIDEO-?]  NAIC – Mike Pickens (AL – Insurance…

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MAPWG – Market Analysis Procedures Working Group (D) – NAIC 2023 0717 – MAPWG – NAIC – Jo LeDuc (Chair-MO), Rebecca Rebholz (WI) Birny Birnbaum (CEJ) MCAS – Health Samantha Burns – Interested Party – complaints per thousand might be useful … Samantha Explanation Jo LeDuc – That makes no sense. Mary Kay Lunch and…

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