Description: This discussion on group coverage covers contingency reserves, pool assessments related to war risks, interest assumptions for group annuities, annual statement handling of group deposit administration business, disability provisions of pension plans, and conversion to individual policies upon termination from a group plan.

Description: What if a blood test can detect more than 50 types of cancer, including those in early stages? A biotech company, GRAIL, has developed the first-to-market Multi-Cancer Early Detection test and launched it for commercial use in 2021. Join us to learn how Munich Re and GRAIL are partnering to bring its Galleri test to the life insurance industry. You will also explore how we as an industry can help save lives by detecting cancer earlier and share perspectives on some early findings and cost-benefit analysis

Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

Description: Discover the impact of COVID-19 on member costs post diagnosis and the future of mortality in this Emerging Long Term COVID-19 Trends webcast. This webcast will be split up into Health and Life portions. During the Health portion of this webcasts, you will learn more about the impact on risk scores due to recent findings. Enjoy this discussion and further dive into the emerging COVID-19 trends that may affect how you conduct business practices. At the Life portion, the SOA Research Institute assembled a panel of mortality experts who will express opinions on the effects of the U.S. mortality rate for general, insured and pension populations in the short-term.

Description: Discover the benefits of building a shared business model during the Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers webcast. This is an educational event for the actuary interested in product and channel innovation, in addition to those wanting to understand how to juggle competitive incentives in the market. Representatives from Insurtechs, insurance carriers and reinsurers will discuss their distribution development and product capabilities for marketing insurance products on digital platforms, as well as their collaboration throughout the process.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications on subjects that include U.K. social insurance, financing of hospital care, state examinations of life companies, approximate valuation of life and health insurance, mortality forecasting, and valuing estate tax.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: Discuss changes in group life waiver of premium claim recovery and mortality experience since the 2005 table was released, the development of the 2023 table, and the new statutory valuation standard approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 9B: AITSC Present I – Lightning Talks on Latest Research 10.28.21 Recording