Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: This article discusses the charge for the new SOA/COVARA AIDS Task Force. This new task force will examine and report on the principles and techniques for the financial recognition of AIDS for insurance companies, recognizing both statutory and GAAP accounting.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a practical method for interpolation and smoothing and give a number of numerical examples using the method. The method is a variation of the Whittaker-Henderson method. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: This purpose of this paper is to furnish management of smaller companies with small company experience. This includes a comparison between medical and non-medical business and the maintaining of a continuous investigation procedure. This paper additionally determines experience rates of mortality for dividend purposes. Experience by cause of death is also provided.

Description: Provides study results for both medically and non-medically underwritten business. Gender analysis is also provided for the period between the 1956 - 1961 anniversaries. Cause of death analysis is provided for the period between the 1959 - 1961 anniversaries, for which gender splits are also provided.

Description: This paper represents an attempt to formulate a cohesive and consistent approach to the analysis of claim liabilities. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the methodology. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: Covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance between 1978 and 1979 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1974 and 1979 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: The adjustment coefficient R plays an important role in mathematical ruin theory this paper presents several different methods for estimating the variance of R. Examples are given in which the variance is so high that the estimate of R must be considered essentially worthless and other means are sought for estimating ruin probabilities. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: The goal of this paper is to develop best possible estimates for the higher moments of a distribution of a positive bounded random variable, such as claim amounts, where these estimates are given in terms of the mean.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker