Description: Discusses the natural history of AIDS and some of the impact on underwriting, the methods for projecting the epidemic from both a population and insurance standpoint, the potential of the AIDS epidemic in terms of reinsurance and solvency reserves. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting explores the status and impact of AIDS in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere in the world.

Description: Experts in this area discuss the latest research, the impact on risk classification, the legislative and regulatory issues involved, and the latest efforts by the American Academy of Actuaries. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This report, the second such report, presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This 1978 panel discussed risk classification systems for a variety of products. Topics covered included: 1. regulatory and social policy encroachment on risk classification systems 2. possible changes in underwriting/marketing strategy because of changed regulatory requirements 3. use of the social imperative via regulation or legislation to mandate availability of coverage to high risk classifications 4. implied use of the risk classification system to provide incentives to control socially undesirable behavior 5. potential use of private mass coverage to minimize the impact on risk classification systems for coverages mandated by law or social policy 6. the ultimate in risk classification systems: self-insurance

Description: The SOA, LIMRA and TAI jointly announce a new research project focusing on life insurance impact from COVID-19.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents new information and approaches that address the impact of underwriting on mortality. Topics include developing issues in insurance medicine, preferred underwriting guidelines, laboratory testing, and monitoring results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.