Description: Critical illness policies pay a large lump sum based upon diagnosis of conditions such as heart attack, stroke, life-threatening cancer, kidney failure, etc. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1, session 119PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews the effects on term insurance product design of reserve requirements resulting from the NAIC's XXX and New York Regulation 147 and the pricing implications on term and universal life UL. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: An Overview of Foreign Critical Illness Claims Experience in South Africa, Ireland, and the UK. Issue No. 40.

Description: Discussion of formulas for determining substandard extra cost of insurance charges for universal life or variable universal life policies.

Description: Full version of Product Development News, March 1998, Issue No. 45.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, April 2001, Issue No. 40.

Description: Critical Illness Insurance properties, underwriting issues, finding incidence rates, regulation issues, Rate Calibration Formula. Issue No. 39

Description: How Ready Are You for the Critical Illness Challenge? by Johan Lotter from Product Development News, August 2000, Issue No. 50.