Financial reporting and solvency issues at the state level, such as NAIC-related projects on RBC, as well as emerging international solvency issues and federal regulation of insurance companies.
Casualty, Life, Health, Professionalism, and Financial Reporting Council comments to the NAIC's Corporate Governance Working Group on its Proposed Responses to a Comparative Analysis of Existing U.S. Corporate Governance Requirements. (September 28, 2012)
Public policy practice groups comments to the NAIC on its draft white paper on the Solvency Modernization Initiative and insurance regulation offering suggestions encompassing RBC, ORSA, and NAIC model laws. (April 30, 2012)
Pension Accounting Committee and Joint Committee on Retiree Health letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on the exposure drafts of Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles (SSAP) No. 92 and No. 102. (December 9, 2011)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup letter to the NAIC's Health RBC Working Group asking it to sponsor and administer a survey of carriers that write Medicare Part D business. The survey is designed to gather additional data that may support any needed changes to the formula. (February 9, 2011)
Life, Health, and Property/Casualty RBC committees joint report in response to the NAIC's request for assistance with the Solvency Modernization (SMI) project on the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital (RBC) formulas. The report discusses the intended/expected safety levels for RBC and identifies risks that are missing from the RBC formulas. (January 31, 2011)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee practice note on the Revised Actuarial Statement of Opinion Instructions of the NAIC Health Annual Statement that went into effect Dec. 31, 2010. This practice note is intended to help actuaries both understand and comply with new requirements issued by the NAIC regarding health annual statement filings. (January 1, 2011)
Joint Committee on Retiree Health and the Pension Accounting Committee comments to the NAIC regarding the exposure draft of SSAP 92 (OPEBs) and proposed revisions to SSAP 89 (pensions). (October 30, 2010)
Deferred Tax Asset DTA Bridge Group request for an interim report to the NAIC Capital Adequacy Task Force showing the appropriate treatment of the Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) in the Risk-Based Capital formulas for Life, Property / Casualty (P&C), and Health. (September 30, 2010)
Health Solvency Work Group comment letter to the chair of the NAIC's Capital Adequacy Task Force regarding the evaluation of the current health risk-based capital covariance formula calculation for potential changes to the calculation or methodology. (June 11, 2010)
Committee on State Health Issues letter to the North Carolina Department of Insurance regarding the Department's proposal to change the definition of "qualified actuary." (April 14, 2010)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee comments on proposed changes in the actuarial opinion instructions for NAIC health annual statements. (February 19, 2008)
Joint Committee on Retiree Health letter to Texas officials about misinterpretations of the committee's 2006 comments on accounting standards for OPEBs. (June 15, 2007)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup revision proposals to the NAIC life and health RBC instructions for Medicare Part D to address a potential unintended consequence related to the Authorized Control Level (ACL) RBC results. (June 3, 2007)
Medicare Part D RBC Subgroup comment letter to NAIC's Health Risk Based Capital Working Group on a possible update of proposed risk factors previously developed by the Academy's Medicare Part D subgroup. (May 3, 2007)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter to Julia T. Philips, the Chair of the NAIC's Health Risk-Based Capital (RBC) Working Group, that comments on a proposal made by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida regarding the treatment in the NAIC RBC formulas of medical insurance products for which active life reserves are held. The letter provided initial thoughts on the matter and seeks further input from the NAIC in light of these thoughts. (May 3, 2007)
