Description: This discussion looks at the approach companies are taking in developing dividend scales for participating accident and health policies as well as arguments for and against grading accident and sickness premiums. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This review summarizes the key features of a stochastic model that works with non-life insurance claim incurral, accrual and reporting. More specifically it provides an overview of the claim model components, classical parameter estimators, test statistics, and forecast point estimates and error variances. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1.

Description: This article discusses Medical Savings Accounts MSA as proposed in federal legislation and the problems that actuaries will face in predicting their use.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings that discusses a technique for estimating the liability for incurred but unpaid claims.

Description: This article is an interview with an actuarial leader.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: This discussion seeks to answer what reserves are required for individual accident and sickness policies, looks at the actuary's responsibility for experience analysis, discusses product development and policy change problems, and examines the major current developments affecting individual accident and sickness insurance.

Description: This discussion reviewed: A. Measures used by smaller companies to deal with below average policy persistency rates, B. The extent to which smaller companies issue policies with little to no retention for their own accounts, C. The extent to which new lines of insurance, such as accident and sickness, and changing distribution of business by line, plan, or age, have caused reconsideration of qualification bases for agency convention and honor awards.

Description: This session will explore the various methods of determining the credibility levels that are given to various size employer groups and Medicare plans. The background and theory of the methods that have commonly been used will be explained and then some new data-driven research in the area and possible alternatives will be discussed.