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The PwC Insurance practice provides professional services to leading insurance organizations.

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• Webcast

  Insurance Contracts Webcast – June 12, 2013
  

  5/23/13 | Insurance

  Join PwC's Insurance Contracts webcast which will focus on the current views of the FASB and IASB on key components of the project.

• IASB/FASB Insurance Contracts Project - Meeting summaries
  

  3/6/13 | Insurance

  Insurers currently use a variety of different and largely inconsistent local approaches to measure the value of insurance contracts within their statutory financial statements. This diversity makes it difficult to compare companies and may fail to reflect the true economic value of insurance business, which can put insurers at a considerable disadvantage when competing for capital.

• Top Insurance Industry Issues in 2013: Contingent business interruption (CBI) and principles based reserving (PBR)
  

  1/28/13 | Insurance

  In the wake of recent natural disasters, CBI has new approaches to modeling and risk assessment. Principles based reserving (PBR) for life products will require many insurers to take a fresh look at their systems, processes, data and governance for both pricing and valuation. read the first two sections of the 2013 edition of Top Issues, which PwC will release in its entirety in March.

• Webcast

  Statutory Accounting Update webcast – January 16, 2013
  

  12/19/12 | Insurance

  In this installment of the PDP Live Webcast Series, Jean Connolly will summarize the recent developments of NAIC projects with a focus on decisions reached at the 2012 NAIC Fall National Meeting.

• Tax accounting for insurance companies - 2012
  

  11/27/12 | Insurance

  This paper discusses the important changes to income tax accounting under statutory accounting principles (SAP), including accounting for uncertain tax positions, which became effective on January 1, 2012.

• Cutting through the regulatory knot
  

  7/10/12 | Insurance

  This PwC briefing is designed to help insurers look at the underlying trends that are shaping the latest regulatory developments, the thinking behind them and the implications for their strategy and operations.

• Top Insurance industry issues 2012: The impact of persistently low interest rates
  

  1/25/12 | Insurance

  Life insurers started feeling the effects of low interest rates on their sales, revenue, profitability, and company valuations in 2011, and the trend is expected to continue in 2012. Strategic options are available to help insurance companies manage through this period of decline.