Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

Description: This paper describes a modified development method for analyzing claims experience and calculating claim reserves and liabilities on short-term health insurance benefits. It identifies many of the influences on claim development and discusses various ways to recognize them. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on aspects of multi-line insurance company operations focusing on the organization structure, the role and relationship with agents, and the role of actuaries in these organizations. These organizations offer products ranging from life to health to property and casualty.

Description: This paper presents recent trends in obesity prevalence in significant population segments, including overall effects by age, gender and certain racial and ethnic groups, and discusses the ways in which obesity can influence mortality in each of these segments. It provides a synthesis of reported mortality experience relating to these behaviors by risk factors and diseases that will affect any mortality projection.

Description: This session discussion is health databases, outcomes research, treatment protocol development, ambulatory utilization, SOA Experience Committee activities, and responding to employer demands for data. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This introduces the last volume of the 104-year era of the Transactions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the new methods of actuarial accounting and other methods in other countries: United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. Topics included: 1. An overview of the most significant overall trends being addressed worldwide in the area of life insurance accounting. 2. Australian trends. 3. Trends in the UK. 4. Trends in Mexico.

Description: The purpose of the paper is to facilitate understanding of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and its ramifications on actuarial work.

Description: Papers: Chronic Diseases and Longevity Risk: An Application to Type II Diabetes Insurance Products – Hsin-Chung Wang, Ph.D. - Aletheia University; Jack C. Yue, ASA, Ph.D. – National Chengchi University; Ting-Chung Chang - Chihlee University of Technology Understanding Multimorbidities - Sam Gutterman, FSA, CERA, FCA, FCAS, HONFIA, MAAA

Description: Presenters examine some of the difficulties created by the absence of worldwide generally accepted accounting principles. Topics covered: 1. The need for worldwide Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, accounting, and reserving standards. 2. The work being done by the International Accounting Standards committee and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.