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

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, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 is a review of a book by Lewis C. Robbins, M.D., M.P.H. and Jack H. Hall, A.B., M.D., titled How To Practice Prospective Medicine by assessing and classifying various health risk factors. The review states the authors' basic assumption that average risk can be determined by calculating the total numbers of deaths by cause in the general population is open to criticism. Furthermore, the assignment of weights for the individual risk factors is quite tenuous in many instances. The authors acknowledge this, but once a number appears in print, especially as part of a complex table, it achieves a sanctity that is difficult to destroy.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1975, Volume 9, No. 10, discusses medical expense insurance. This article addresses the following questions: Why have group claim frequency rates remained high? What can be expected for the future? What management actions are appropriate? This presentation is one actuary's attempt to answer these questions.

Description: Summary of the 1974 report of the HIAA Prevailing Health Care Charges System which contains data from about 900,000 charges for up to 1,600 different surgical procedures, summarized for 250 geographical areas. From The Actuary Vol. 9, No. 7

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: This article is about environmental risk occupations, local environment and substance abuse and how they influence actuarial financial estimates. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1

Description: This article explores the changing risk profile between the transitional Affordable Care Act (ACA) period (2014-2016) and under the final ACA period (beyond 2017) for the individual market. Actuaries are in a unique position to help facilitate the change from the current ACA period to the final period when health plans will have to take on substantially more risk.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 8 that talks about society's love of dirt and how it affects the life insurance industry.