Description: Highlights from Munich Re’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section and covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: Feature article describing what makes a company a systemically important financial institution and the new rules those companies will have to follow.

Description: Projecting Policy Persistency by Bruce Stahl from Long-Term Care Newsletter, September 2004, Issue No. 12.

Description: This article makes organizations entering the MA market aware of the star rating climate, as well as short- and long-term star rating & revenue considerations.

Description: Essay suggesting to fix the tax code, reform healthcare regulations, open the industry to competition and reform malpractice litigation.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1957, including a case regarding interpretation of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 with amendments, FIT deduction of group disability benefits, FTC jurisdiction over advertising, group life employee ineligibility and incontestable clause, date of reinstatement, and claims issues.

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: A review of the classic business book Built to Last, originally published in 1994. Looking at the past twenty years -- how have the BTL companies done? How have their comparison companies fared? Read the review and find out!