Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.

Description: Presented at the April 1985 Spring Meeting. More agents are becoming independent. Discussion covers how to support and do more for them, and their impact on product design.

Description: Discusses the process from beginning to end: identifying product needs, pricing considerations and assumptions, sales and administration systems, the state filing process, and negotiating reinsurance arrangements. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the joint Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Meeting held April 10-11, 1978 in New York City. In their discussion, the panelists define solvency and capacity, and consider how capacity can be measured, the qualitative aspects of solvency, the effects of inflation, availability of capital, and insurance risk vs. investment risk. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 4, No. 1.