Description: Book review of the latest edition (4th) of Life, Health, and Annuity Reinsurance by John Tiller, Jr and Denise Fagerberg Tiller

Description: Feature article discussing the impact of health care reform on the direct insurance market and the reinsurance market.

Description: Medical stop-loss reinsurance continues to play a vital role in containing employers’ health care costs. Managing general underwriters [MGUs], who originally handled these programs, have lost market share to large direct writers. This article discusses how health care reform and highly disciplined underwriting tools offer growth opportunities to MGUs.

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: Medical Insurance in Latin America: Lessons Learned. Issue No. 42.

Description: Gathering information and assess risks of Managed Care Networks. Looking at cost and service areas. Issue No. 44.

Description: Specific and aggregate stop loss insurance reinsurance is a product that has unique characteristics. The product is a special type of policy that covers employers or their self-funded employee benefit plans for larger health claims. The product has some unique reserving challenges for the health/reinsurance actuary.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss ways in which the group long term disability [LTD] reinsurance market has emerged and the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of reinsurance that are available.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discuss the recent history , the current environment and issues, and the future trends of medical reinsurance, including stop-loss and special risk insurance.

Description: In the last 10 to 15 years, new health insurance programs have proliferated in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The reason for this boom has been, basically, the need for insurance companies to identify and implement new or additional lines of insurance business in order to match or exceed the increased numbers of competitors now working in these markets. This is combined with the stronger reinsurance capacity that these insurance companies had access to, which can be attributed to the need for increased reinsurance protection that arose a number of years ago, when many insurance and reinsurance companies were seeking larger volumes of businesses based on the expected growth potential of the region.