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The Terrorism Risk Insurance Subcommittee of the Casualty Practice Council sent a comment letter to the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury regarding the process by which terrorist events are certified for purposes of triggering the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (as recently amended).

The transcript of the court proceedings on Feb. 24, 2015, is now available. On that date, Judge Peter Flynn of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, dismissed without prejudice all claims against the Academy—including any claims for injunctive or declaratory relief—that had been filed in December by a former president of the Society of Actuaries.

The Casualty Practice Council submitted comments to the Actuarial Standards Board on an exposure draft of a proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) on modeling.

The Pension Committee sent a comment letter to the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) regarding the second exposure draft of the proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) on modeling standards. 

In the March/April issue of Contingencies, read the feature article, "Smoke and Mirrors: Marijuana Use and Underwriting"—the author looks at how life insurance underwriting policies treat marijuana use, and asks whether that treatment is backed up by sound science. Also in this issue, features on autonomous vehicle technologies and auto insurers, possible reforms for health care payment systems, and how Big Data and “nudges” can help improve our lives.

The Individual and Small Group Market Task Force published an issue brief examining how the rules applying to groups sized 51-100 will change with the Affordable Care Act's scheduled expansion of the definition of small employers to those with up to 100 employees and what that will mean for insurance offerings in the small group market. Read the news release on the issue brief

Nominations are now open for the Jarvis Farley Service Award, the Robert J. Myers Public Service Award, and the Outstanding Volunteerism Award. Learn more and submit your nomination(s) for a deserving colleague and/or respected mentor for the award that best suits his or her service to the actuarial profession and the Academy.