Discrimination against minorities and women in pensions and health, life, and disability insurance.

Other author United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Publication Info[Washington] : [U.S. Commission on Civil Rights] : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, [1978-<1918]>
Descriptionvolumes <1-2> ; 23 cm
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Contents v. 1. Proceedings and papers. Opening statement, Arthur S. Flemming, Chairman -- Overview of the insurance industry and discrimination against minorities and women in the insurance marketplace -- Statement of Herbert S. Denenberg, former Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania -- Legislation and litigation relating to discrimination in pensions and health, life, and disability insurance -- Statement of Lois G. Williams, acting counsel for appellate litigation, Fair Labor Standards Division, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor -- Statement of Nancy M. Gordon, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute -- Discussion by Lucy Mallan, Economist, Office of Retirement and Survivors Studies, Social Security Administration -- Discussion by Frank G. Davis, Professor of Economics, Howard University -- Discussion by Carol Burris, President, Women's Lobby, Inc. -- Statement of Gayle Thompson, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration -- Discussions by Walter Kolodrubetz, Chief, Division of Research, Pensions and Welfare Benefit Programs, Labor-Management Services Administration, Department of Labor -- Discussion by Fred J. Ochs, Director, Employee Plans Division, Internal Revenue Service -- Discussion by Judy Ellis, Office of Policy Implementation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Statement of Naomi Naierman, Senior Health Analyst, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Discussion by David Abner, III, Professor of Business Administration, Howard University -- Discussion by E. Paul Barnhart, Consulting Actuary, St. Louis, Missouri -- Discussion by Oscar Cerda, Health Field Coordinator, National Health Insurance Project, National Association of Farmworker Organizations -- Statement of Robert J. Randall, Vice President and ACtuary, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States -- Discussion by Marjorie Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Legal Affairs, Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City -- Discussion by Nathan Keyfitz, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Harvard University -- Discussion by Dale R. Gustafson, Vice President and Actuary, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company -- Statement of F. Marion Fletcher, Professor of Management, Louisiana State University -- Discussion by Horace Bussell, Office of the Executive Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Discussion by Edward A. Robie, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States -- Discussion by Everett M. Friedman, Chief, Insurance Compliance Staff, Social Security Administration -- Statement of Linda Lamel, Deputy Superintendent of Insurance, State of New York -- -Discussion by Richard J. Keintz, Deputy Commissioner of Insurance, State of Wisconsin -- Discussion by Eleanor Lewis, Assistant Commissioner of INsurance, State of New Jersey -- Discussion by Gayle Lewis-Carter, Special Assistant to the Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania -- DIscussion by Thomas C. Jones, Insurance Commissioner, State of Michigan -- Statement of Richard Minck, Vice President and Actuary, American Council of Life Insurance -- DIscussion by A.T. Spaulding, Sr., retired President, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company -- Discussion by G. David Hurd, Vice President, Bankers Life Company -- Discussion by Thomas J. Gillolly, Associate General Counsel, Health Insurance Association of America -- Discussion by Cruz C. Alderete, President, First American Financial Services.
Partial contents An overview report : discrimination in the insurance marketplace and in the insurance business--with primary emphasis on life, health, disability, and pensions / Herbert S. Denenberg -- Discrimination in insurance : legislation and litigation / Lois G. Williams -- The treatment of women under social security / Nancy M. Gordon -- An evaluation of 'The treatment of women under Social Security' by Nancy Gordon and 'Some Social Security issues pertinent to blacks by Frank G. Davis -- Comments / Lucy Mallan -- Private pension coverage and benefits for women and minorities / Gayle B. Thompson and Martha Remy Yohalem -- Sex discrimination in insurance / Naomi Naierman and Ruth Brannon -- Comments / E. Paul Barnhart -- Discrimination against farmworkers in the insurance industry / E.P. Vecchio and Oscar Cerda -- Risk classification and actuarial tables as they affect insurance pricing for women and minorities / Robert J. Randall -- Equity in insurance : the two views / Nathan Keyfitz -- Employment patterns of minorities and women in the insurance industry, 1966-75 / F. Marion Fletcher and Linda Pickthorne Fletcher -- Employment in the insurance industry / Edward A. Robie -- State regulation of the insurance industry / Linda Lamel -- Comments on paper presented by Linda Lamel / Thomas C. Jones -- Comments / Eleanor J. Lewis -- Discrimination in the insurance marketplace : a Pennsylvania overview / William J. Sheppard and Gayle Lewis-Carter -- State regulation of the insurance industry / Harold R. Wilde -- Discrimination against minorities and women in pensions and health, life, and disability insurance : the insurance industry response / Richard Minck -- Comments / Cruz Alderete -- A health insurance perspective on discrimination / Thomas J. Gillooly.
Contents v. 2. Exhibits. Letter from Everett M. Friedman, Chief, Insurance Compliance Staff, Social Security Administration, June 8, 1978, and position paper on employment discrimination based on religion -- Anti-Defamation League study of employment discrimination in the insurance industry -- Burden-benefit under social security : the case of poor blacks / Frank G. Davis, 1977 -- Position paper : affirmative inaction, reaction, and retraction / Roy Cooksey, Affirmative Action Officer, Committee for Economic Opportunity, Tucson, Ariz. -- Letters from E. Paul Barnhart, Consulting Actuary, St. Louis, Mo. : June 20, 1978, on hospital-medical insurance lapse rates; and May 22, 1978, on Naierman-Brannon paper -- U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Los Angeles Department of Power and Water v. Manhart -- Disability income insurance cost differentials between men and women, State of New York, Insurance Department, June 1976 -- "Insurance Guide for Women", state of Wisconsin, Office of the Commissioner of Insurance -- Letter from William J. Sheppard, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, May 18, 1978, on enforcement by Pennsylvania Insurance Department of equal employment opportunity in insurance companies -- Recommendations by Everett M. Friedman, Chief, Insurance Compliance Staff, Social Security Administration -- Items submitted by Edward A. Robie, Senior Vice President, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States : excerpts on employment from the social responsibility reports of Aetna Life & Casualty Co., the Prudential, and the Equitable; excerpt on employment from 1977 Social Report of the Life and Health Insurance Business, Clearinghouse on Corporate Social Responsibility; Response, January 1977; "Affirmative Action activity within the life insurance industry in the United States." Life Office Management Association, December 1975; employment data from the Equitable; Equitable's General Operating Policy on Affirmative Action -- Letter from Chris H. Howard, Associate Director, National Insurance Association, May 5, 1978, and roster of minority insurance companies -- Items submitted by Thomas J. Gillooly, Associate General Counsel, Health Insurance Association of America : statement of the American Council of Life Insurance and the Health Insurance Association of America on Senate Bill 995 before the Senate Labor Subcommittee, Committee on Human Resources, April 29, 1977; excerpt from brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants in Health Insurance Association of America et al. v. Harnett; descriptions and definitions of disability insurance -- Letter from Daniel F. Case, Associate Actuary, American Council of Life Insurance, June 22, 1978, on right of insurance purchasers to see their files and on amounts of life insurance made available to wives in relation to amounts available to husbands / Statement of Senator Birch Bayh, May 4, 1978, on discriminatory practices in insurance -- Letter from Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, May 22, 1978, on discriminatory practices in property and casualty insurance -- Letter from Drew S. Days III, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, May 12, 1978, and comments of the Civil Rights Division Task Force on Sex Discrimination -- "Some thoughts on the treatment of women under social security" by Robert J Meyers, Professor of Actuarial Science, temple University -- Letter from Karen W. Ferguson, Director, Pension Rights Center, May 1, 1978, on pensions -- "Sex discrimination in disability and health insurance," Women employed, January 1976; "History of women employed campaign to ban the sale of discriminatory insurance policies."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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