Sandbox – Short List – 417 Academic 201x – Universal Life Insurance Duration Measures, Lange, Alonzi, Simpkins – 14p  2004 – UNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCE – ASPECTS OF THE CASH VALUE DEVELOPMENT – Insurance – 146p  1982 -Using Information-Processing Principles in Public Policymaking- Marketing – 21p 1981 – FTC The NAIC Model Life Insurance Solicitation Regulation – 22p  1972 – An Empirical…

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Sandbox UL – Premium – 415 2017/11/15  – ACLI revised draft and letter – Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide Working Group Permanent (cash value) insurance covers you for your entire life – Unlike a term policy, which can end after a specified number of years, permanent life insurance will continue to the policy’s maturity age so…

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Sandbox – UL – Dynamic Products – Raindrop or Umbrella – 414 Raindrop Umbrella    In essence, the model regulation <Universal Life Model Regulation> assumes that at issue, all universal life policies are permanent plans. The r-ratio is meant to measure the extent to which the policy is on track” as a permanent plan. Statutory Valuation…

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Industry Reputation Disintermediation Reputational Risk NAIC Current / Recent Working Groups 11/14-15/2014 IULISG – IUL Illustration Subgroup CC, NAIC Proceedings   Mr. Ehren (Securian) said it is in the industry’s best interests to provide additional disclosures for IUL illustrations. 11/14-15/2014 LATF 6-63   Greg Gurlick (Northwestern Mutual Life) said that if consumers are not satisfied…

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Off-Track / On-Track In essence, the model regulation assumes that at issue, all universal life policies are permanent plans. [Bonk: model regulation = ULMR – Universal Life Model Regulation] The r-ratio is meant to measure the extent to which the policy is “on track” as a permanent plan. 2018 – Book – Statutory Valuation of Individual…

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4 – Snippets – Short List 8/17/2016 LIIIWG CC Richard Wicka, Chair    She (Stegall) said the ad hoc group also discussed tasks to help it achieve its goal, including: 1) gathering background on how the summaries are used and by whom; and 2) reviewing narrative and policy summary examples for key factors highlighted in…

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Roles Roles:  Academic, Actuaries, Consumers, Consumer Advocates, Lawyers, Regulators, BonkNote Insurance Regulators Insurance regulation can generally be described in two simple statements. Insurance regulators want insurers to have sufficient assets to make good on the promises they are selling and they want insurers to treat their policyholders and claimants right. The first part of the…

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What Policies lead to Confusion / Market conduct issues / Lawsuits? More complex products sold to individual consumers (e.g., universal life policies) tend to generate more market conduct problems than simple products (e.g., term life insurance). 2003 0701 – NCOIL – The Path to Reform – The Evolution of Market Conduct Surveillance Regulation – [PDF-117p]…

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4 – Illustrations NAIC – Current / Recent Working Groups 11/14-15/2014 LATF 6-63   Anthony Ferraro (New York Life) said that one of the goals of the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation (#582) is to make sure that illustrations do not mislead consumers. ………………………… He emphasized that it is important that the accumulated cash flows…

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Ralph Nader Didn’t Say It Note that the data is not from Ralph Nader, but from LIMRA and the NALU [NAIFA]. —  Randall P. Mire 1983 – SOA – The Future of Whole Life Insurance–A Debate, Society of Actuaries – 24p Basing an industry of this size on public gullibility is a completely unsound premise.…

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