Life Reserves Work Group (LRWG) comments to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) on currently exposed amendment proposal forms on net premium reserves. (April 25, 2016)
Risk Sharing Subcommittee letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with comments on its recent discussion paper, HHS-Operated Risk Adjustment Methodology. The letter includes comments on partial year enrollment, use of pharmacy data, use of concurrent versus prospective model, high-risk enrollee pooling, recalibration of the model, and the transfer formula. (April 22, 2016)
Casualty Practice Council comments on the Actuarial Standards Board's (ASB) second exposure draft of the proposed actuarial standards of practice for Property/Casualty Ratemaking. (April 21, 2016)
Health Care Receivables Factors Work Group recommendation on credit risk factors for health care receivables to the NAIC’s Health Risk Based Capital (E) Work Group. (April 15, 2016)
Health Solvency Subcommittee letter to the NAIC’s Health Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group with comments on Proposal 2016-01-H’s individual premiums and claims footnote. (March 28, 2016)
Role of the Actuary Subgroup comments to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial (A) Task Force (LATF) on revisions to Section VM-31 of the Valuation Manual applicable to qualified actuaries for clarification and consistency with the Standard Valuation Law. (March 25, 2016)
Joint Academy Life Experience Committee and SOA Preferred Mortality Oversight Group comments to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial (A) Task Force (LATF) on the removal of the provisions for unisex rates as applied to reserves. (March 17, 2016)
Senior Pension Fellow Ted Goldman comments to the Senate Finance Committee on its hearing, “The Multiemployer Pension Plan System: Recent Reforms and Current Challenges.”
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Comments to the NAIC executive committee by the Price Optimization Task Force on changes made to the proposed Price Optimization White Paper. (March 15, 2016)
Role of the Actuary Subgroup comments to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial (A) Task Force (LATF) on revisions to the Corporate Governance Guidance Appendix, Section VM-G, of the Valuation Manual applicable to qualified actuaries for clarification and consistency with the Standard Valuation Law. (March 10, 2016)
SVL Interest Rate Modernization Work Group comments to the NAIC's V-22 Subgroup of the Life Actuarial Task Force on statutory regulations regarding the determination of statutory valuation interest rates. (February 23, 2016)
Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) comments to the NAIC’s Actuarial Opinion (C) Working Group on the Actuarial Opinion Instructions. (February 12, 2016)
Senior Property/Casualty Fellow Jim MacGinnitie comments to the NAIC/IAIABC Joint (C) Working Group on the 2015 Workers’ Compensation Large Deductible Study draft. (February 05, 2016)
Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) comments to the NAIC’s Statutory Principles (E) Working Group on the proposed Clarification of AccountingTreatment for Fees Incurred for Salvage/Subrogation Recoveries. (February 03, 2016)
Life Illustrations Work Group (LIWG) comments to the NAIC’s Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee on the new working group formed to explore disclosures required in Model #580 and #582. (January 29, 2016)
Medicare Subcommittee letter to the Senate Finance Committee with comments on the Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group’s Policy Options Document. (January 26, 2016)
Solvency Committee comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on the Non-traditional Non-insurance Activities and Products public consultation document dated November 25, 2015. (January 25, 2016)
Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) comments to the NAIC/IAIABC Joint (C) Working Group on the 2015 Workers’ Compensation Large Deductible Study draft. (January 19, 2016)
Risk Sharing Subcommittee letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the proposed rule on benefit and payment parameters for 2017. (December 20, 2015)
Life Illustrations Work Group comments to LATF’s IUL Illustration (A) Subgroup on the draft revision to Actuarial Guideline (AG) 49. (December 01, 2015)
Price Optimization Task Force comments to the NAIC’s Property/Casualty Committee on the Price Optimization White Paper after its adoption by the Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Task Force (CASTF). (November 21, 2015)
ERM/ORSA Committee comments to the International Actuarial Association (IAA) on its white paper "Actuarial Aspects of ERM for Insurance Companies." (November 20, 2015)
Individual Disability Tables Work Group (IDTWG) presented updated incidence modifiers report for use in active life reserve calculations for employer-sponsored disability income policies along with a corresponding memo memo to the chair of the Health Actuarial Task Force.
Deposit Fund Subgroup comments to the Life Actuarial Task Force on rules for separate accounts that fund guaranteed minimum benefits under group contracts related to the synthetic GIC model regulation. (November 16, 2015)