Description: Duncan's personal reflections on the state of care management evaluation.

Description: This presentation, session number 89PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Panelists discuss issues and challenges facing organizations wishing to sell insurance and financial products over the Internet. Topics include regulatory issues facing on-line marketing and sales initiatives, security of the information provided online, “bought” versus “sold” products, and receptiveness of users. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Because The Independent Consultant is not retained on the section website indefinitely, we have created the Resource Center as a permanent home for many of the reference articles. From The Stepping Stone, October 2005, Issue No. 20.

Description: Actuaries are increasingly being called upon to advise management about the value of medical management programs and interventions. This session discusses disease management outcome measurements and the cost vs value issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 111

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: This article presents a summary of the third SOA/DMAA Predictive Modeling Conference, as well as comments from the panel. From Health Watch News, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, Issue No. 48, October 2004.

Description: An actuary presents his concerns regarding the imposition of continuing professional development requirements for actuaries primarily on principle and the requirement's economic implications. Another actuary presents rebuttal which will assist all actuaries in an understanding of how the board reached the decision to institute the continuing education standards.

Description: Fairly thorough discussion about group universal life, from history through legal and actuarial issues and market outlook. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: A study on stochastic simulation literature as it applies to a health actuary.