Academy President Cecil Bykerk responds with a letter to the editors of The Wall Street Journal to an April 10 op-ed, “The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy,” regarding pension funding and expected rates of return.
(April 12, 2013)
Read about recent health care reform activities in the latest edition.
(April 10, 2013)
The Casualty Practice Council, represented by Chairperson Mike Angelina, presented an actuarial perspective on insurance for acts of terrorism at the NAIC's Center for Insurance Policy and Research Brunch.
(April 09, 2013)The C1 Work Group gave a presentation to the NAIC Risk-Based Capital Working Group on the development of factors for corporate bonds in the RBC formula. (April 06, 2013)
Bob Yee, who chairs the Long-Term Care Valuation Work Group, provided a final recommendation at the NAIC's LTC Actuarial Working Group meeting regarding an LTC valuation table and determined that a table is not feasable at this time because of a lack of quality data.
(April 05, 2013)The Academy's Individual Disability Table Work Group provided an update to the NAIC's Health Actuarial Task Force at the NAIC's Spring National Meeting highlighting progress on the individual disability table as well as indicating the specific tasks that lie ahead to finish the updated table.
(April 05, 2013)Subgroups of the Life Practice Council gave presentations to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial Task Force regarding development of an aggregate margin and mortality studies, submitted reports on nonforfeiture modernization and, synthetic guaranteed investment contracts and proposed amendments to VM-20 regarding policy loans, deterministic reserve and pre-tax investment maintenance reserve.
(April 04, 2013)Cori Uccello, the Academy's senior health fellow, submitted suggested language on actuarial value to the NAIC's Consumer Information Subgroup for inclusion in a "frequently asked questions" document.
(April 01, 2013)The Property/Casualty Risk-Based Capital Committee provided a report to the NAIC’s Property/Casualty Risk-Based Capital Working Group on the reinsurance credit risk charge in NAIC Property/Casualty Risk-Based Capital.
(March 29, 2013)Join us to learn more about the recently released minimum value (MV) calculator—an important component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation. The American Academy of Actuaries will hold this free webinar with representatives from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), who will provide a brief demonstration of the calculator and then answer YOUR questions about the MV calculator.
(March 28, 2013)The Casualty, Health, Life, and Professionalism Councils sent comments to the NAIC’s Joint Qualified Actuary (A/B/C) Subgroup in response to its request for comments to a list of nine questions in anticipation of the Subgroup’s meeting at the NAIC Spring National Meeting on April 5, 2013.
(March 28, 2013)The Medical Loss Ratio Work Group submitted comments to HHS on a proposed rule that requires issuers to offer a new type of individual health insurance policy covering contraceptive benefits. The comments focus only on the effect of the proposed rule on the MLR calculation.
(March 28, 2013)The Separate Account Products Work Group (SAWG) commented on the December 20, 2012 document, “Review of Non-Variable, Insulated Products/Product Characteristics with Proposed Recommendations” that was exposed on January 9 by the NAIC Separate Account Risk (E) Working Group. (March 25, 2013)
The Annuity Illustration Work Group submitted comments to the Iowa Insurance Division on its March 18 draft memorandum, Annuity Illustrations; 191 Iowa Administrative Code rules 15.61-.69, based upon the new NAIC Annuity Disclosure Model Regulation.
The NAIC Health Actuarial Task Force has exposed for comment the 2012 Group Long-Term Disability Valuation Table, a proposed related Actuarial Guideline, and the proposed modification to the Health Insurance Reserves Model Regulation. Comments are due by May 31. (March 15, 2013)
The newly formed Long-Term Care Terminations Work Group sent a letter to the NAIC announciing the work group's formation and its charge to gather data on terminations in long-term care insurance.
(March 15, 2013)The Life Reserve Work Group (LRWG) submitted an amendment proposal to the Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) of the NAIC that clarifies the VM-20 approach to model policy loan cash flows in the deterministic reserve and stochastic reserve calculations. (March 14, 2013)
This March 20 webinar will cover the recently released final and interim final rules related to the implementation of the three risk-sharing mechanisms in the Affordable Care Act—risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors (otherwise known as the “3Rs”). Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services will will focus their presentation on the new methodology for reconciling advanced cost-sharing reduction payments. Register for free!
(March 14, 2013)
Read about recent health care reform activities in the latest edition of HealthCheck.
(March 13, 2013)
Join us on March 13 and 14 for this free two-part webinar series to learn more about the recently released final rules related to the Affordable Care Act implementation. The American Academy of Actuaries will hold this webinar with representatives from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, who will be on hand to answer YOUR questions, specifically regarding actuarial value determinations, cost-sharing reductions, essential health benefits, and the final market reform rules.
(March 12, 2013)
