Description: Cancer Insurance is among the latest products singled out for assault. Consumer advocates, Congressional committees, federal agencies and State insurance departments all have had their well-publicized say. Some of the last-named have wielded the executioner’s axe, prohibiting its issue. This article reviews the arguments against cancer insurance and rebuts them.

Description: September’s Actuary contained an excellent summary by Drew Davidoff of renewal rating for small group medical business. Among the techniques he describes are age, sex, and area rating, experience rating using credibility, experience rating using tiers, examination of the diagnoses in the claim file, and initial and reentry medical underwriting.

Description: Attempts to explain the need for premium increases on level-premium, guaranteed-renewable health-insurance policies. It presents a perspective on loss ratios for such policies that may be helpful to an insurer in reflecting a regulator's or consumer's viewpoint.

Description: This article highlights what makes disabled people return to work and gives examples of how flexible claims services can operate in a cost efficient manner.

Description: In this article, the author, reflecting upon his own experiences, discusses why meaningful individual health insurance, unlike other lines of individual coverage, is generally not offered by insurers to individuals with long-term needs.

Description: This article discusses fringe benefits for the retired from a 1967 meeting of the Canadian Pension Conference.

Description: Discusses the features of, and the development of, the new disability income valuation table, the 1985 Commissioner's Individual Disability Tables A, or CIDA. Also mentions the 1985 CIDB developed by E. Paul Barnhart.

Description: This article discusses the growing number of cases of dementia and its effects on economics and loved ones.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volume 4, Issue 6

Description: Discusses variability in per capita health-care costs by health-care provider.