The Summer StateScan Quarterly highlights recent state legislation and regulation so far this year, as many legislatures are ending or beginning to wrap their 2019 sessions. For a more comprehensive look at state legislative and regulatory activity, log in to the StateScan portal, free for Academy members. (June 24, 2019)
The C-2 Work Group gave an update on life mortality RBC to the NAIC Risk-Based Capital Working Group for the working group's June 24 conference call. (June 24, 2019)
Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy's end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 21, 2019)
The Academy's Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee has published a new document, Wildfire: An Issue Paper -- Lessons Learned from the 2017-2018 California Events. Read the news release. (June 21, 2019)
The Financial Regulatory Reform Task Force submitted a comment letter to the Financial Stability Oversight Council regarding the Council’s proposed guidance on nonbank financial company determinations. (May 13, 2019)
The Academy published a new Essential Elements paper, High-Performance Networks: Optimizing Health Insurance Networks to Improve Care, highlighting the potential of high-performance networks between health insurers and providers to reduce costs for patients. Essential Elements is a series designed to make actuarial analyses of public policy issues clearer to general audiences. (June 20, 2019)
Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy's end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 14, 2019)
In the June HealthCheck, it was reported that the Health Practice Council (HPC) submitted a statement for the record to the House Ways and Means Committee for its Wednesday hearing, “Pathways to Universal Health Coverage.” Also covered, the HPC submitted a comment letter to the Actuarial Standards Board on the fourth exposure draft of a proposed new actuarial standard of practice on modeling; the Essential Elements report “Medicare’s Long-Term Sustainability Challenge” and related issue brief Medicare’s Financial Condition: Beyond Actuarial Balance were updated; and recent state and federal legislative and regulatory activity. (June 12, 2019)
The Academy presented a seminar on Predictive Modeling for regulators attending the NAIC's Insurance Summit in Kansas City. (June 06, 2019)
Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy's end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (June 07, 2019)
The Health Practice Council submitted comments to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means regarding its June 12 hearing, "Pathways to Universal Health Coverage." (June 07, 2019)
Are you experienced? The May “Professionalism Counts” reviews experience requirements for actuaries, including basic and continuing education. (Actuarial Update, May 2019) (May 31, 2019)
Read the latest issue of This Week—the Academy's end-of-week digital newsletter, compiling a week’s worth of news, updates, and media coverage in one convenient, easy-to-use publication. (May 31, 2019)
In the May Actuarial Update, Academy officials represented the U.S. actuarial profession at three international events this month. Also in this issue, the Academy sent a May 30 letter asking the NAIC to reconsider the definition for “qualified actuary”; author and political commentator P.J. O’Rourke will kick off the Academy’s Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum in November; Academy practice-area councils commented on a proposed actuarial standard of practice on modeling; the Casualty Practice Council led a Capitol Forum webinar on cyber risk insurance and released a cyber risk insurance resource guide; and the “Professionalism Counts” column reviews experience requirements for actuaries, including basic and continuing education. (May 31, 2019)
The Academy submitted comments to the NAIC Casualty Actuarial and Statistical (C) Task Force regarding an exposure draft of proposed P/C Statement of Actuarial Opinion Instructions. (May 30, 2019)
