The Academy’s Index-Linked Variable Annuity Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup regarding Exposure 3.1 of the Proposed Actuarial Guideline ILVA, Nonforfeiture Requirements for Index Linked Variable Annuity Products Support by Non-Unitized Accounts.

The Data Science and Analytics Committee, in partnership with the Racial Equity Task Force, released a major issue brief, An Actuarial View of Correlation and Causation - From Interpretation to Practice to Implications.

Academy Casualty VP, Lauren Cavanaugh, provided testimony on June 29 before the Washington, D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) on their upcoming "Initiative to Evaluate Unintentional Bias in Private Passenger Automobile Insurance. " She provided a verbal presentation on the recommended actuarial considerations for determining unintentional bias in auto insurance. 

The Racial Equity Task Force released an issue brief discussing the potential options to obtaining protected class information on insureds in the P&C insurance industry to test for practices that may disproportionally harm members of any protected classes. It also evaluates three general data collection methods—collecting additional data, capturing existing external data, or imputing data—for desirable attributes such as accuracy, efficiency, and the size of the data set.