Description: This abstract describes a report that studies the social media response to three extreme tornado outbreaks in the Midwest United States.

Description: 2nd place paper for The Actuarial Foundation's Modeling the Future Challenge. The paper examines the property losses sustained by homeowners and the economic losses sustained by insurance companies and government agencies.

Description: This article highlights some of the key elements included in the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress in July 2023 regarding the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

Description: Reserving and ratemaking calculations are vital to how insurance companies perform financially. Current-day practices for predicting future loss ratio or pure premiums for reserving and ratemaking rates are not based on low prediction errors—mean squared error (MSE) criterion. This report provides mathematically optimal weights that lead to minimum MSE prediction errors, and the formulas are validated using retro-testing with real-world datasets. In this report, two main theorems are discussed, each addressing prediction of future loss ratio or pure premium and improving upon current practices for how rates and reserves are calculated.

Description: The document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a research study on offshore life and annuity jurisdictions' reinsurance landscapes, commissioned by the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section. It outlines the background, purpose, research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, and other related information.

Description: This report proposes a methodology to isolate crop yield improvement due to technological change and favorable and unfavorable weather.

Description: Comprehensive insurance covers theft and any vehicle damage not caused by a collision, but rather by natural causes or those of pure happenstance.