Description: This article is a discussion of a study released in June 1976 by the New York Insurance Department, entitled “Disability Income Insurance – Cost Differentials between Men and Women.” The author of this article notes that “due to charges by various groups of discrimination in the underwriting and establishing of premium rates for individual disability income insurance, the results of this study have been eagerly awaited by many segments of the insurance industry. Fears of substantiating uni-sex rates were unfounded as the results of the study generally conformed to those of the Society of Actuaries which the industry has relied on to a great extent in the past.”

Description: No fault auto insurance and health insurance may permit collecting double benefits for auto-related medical claims was true in 1972.

Description: A view of Social Security disability experience for 1970 through 1978, and future projected trends based on observed application, approval, and recovery rates.

Description: Recently completed experience studies and research studies from the SOA.

Description: Feature article featuring expert opinions on the future of health care

Description: This is a book review of 'What Healthy People Know by Dr. Bob Gleeson, a book focusing on the seven things that healthy people do to say healthy and live long. The reviewer relates these activities to the actuarial career.

Description: This article exams societal trends that may influence retirement patterns and presented retirement scenarios. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 12

Description: Article from The Actuary January 1993 Volume 27, No. 1 highlights solvency measures and what happens if they don't work. Includes discussion on US guaranty association and Canadian CompCorp.

Description: Article from The Actuary June 1993 – Volume 27, No. 6 is about psychiatric disability claims

Description: This article is about pet insurance. In the past two years, the major U.S. pet insurer has doubled the number of policies in force to 75,000, while many thousands of other cats and dogs are insured by regional HMOs formed by veterinarians.