Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘Introduction to Nonproportional Reinsurance,’ by Herbert L. Feay, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to the author’s paper, raising some questions, but generally finding the paper an excellent introduction to a complex and not well explored field, at least from the perspective of life actuaries. The author, in his reply to the discussion, emphasizes that the paper was meant as an introduction to stimulate further work in this field.

Description: These are discussion papers on the paper, 'Ordinary Life Insurance Limits' by Edward A. Dougherty, which dealt with issue limits and reinsurance retention limits in life insurance.

Description: This paper presents the recursive definition of the aggregate claims distribution which does not require the usual computation of the convolutions of the distribution of claim amounts. It is independent of the number of lives in the group. which makes it particularly useful for large groups. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This paper presents an introduction to collective risk theory. In collective risk theory one seeks to investigate directly the risk enterprise as a whole. Primary interest is focused not upon the gains, losses, or claims from individual policies but upon the amount of total claims or the total gain arising from all the policies in the portfolio considered. Followed by several discussion papers submitted.

Description: This discussion covers methods used to determine limits of retention for life and health insurance, the handling of special features such as guaranteed purchase options, and any new procedures or methods for reinsurance that have been developed and the advantages and disadvantages of these.

Description: This is a discussion of miscellaneous topics. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 12 Pt. 2 Includes discussion of automation opportunities, persistency studies, and stop-loss and catastrophe reinsurance

Description: Discusses services provided by reinsurers in addition to risk-sharing, cost of conventional life reinsurance, pools, non-proportional techniques and comparison with practices in non-life lines, and international aspects.

Description: This paper presents a policy-year model for GAAP valuation of reinsurance accepted on the coinsurance and modified coinsurance bases. Also presented are the interrelationships between the model's methodology and statutory accounting procedures, a discussion of experience-refunding situations, and a demonstration of the model's ability to yield GAAP profits as a level percentage of premium. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This note concerns itself with a simple upper bound premium. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol .21, Pt. 1, No. 60.

Description: This discussion on reinsurance looks at criteria which applies in setting the acceptance and retention limits of a smaller company, if its advantageous to divide risks between two or more reinsurers, and what reinsurance a small company needs on group insurance or on individual accident and sickness insurance.