Description: Read the September 2017 issue of NewsDirect published by the Marketing & Distribution Section.

Description: Read the November 2018 issue of Reinsurance News published by the Reinsurance Section.

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

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

Description: Techniques that have gained some traction in general (property/casualty) insurance will be highlighted with a particular focus on the linear mixed model. This model adds random effects to the more commonly seen fixed effects (for example, as used in GLMs).

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses (CLICE) has submitted its recommendation memo for the 2015 Generally Recognized Expense Table (GRET) for use with individual life insurance sales illustrations. The recommendation is currently being exposed for comments by the NAIC.

Description: Presenters will address optimal new business written premium mix at the firm and state levels under varying competitive conditions. They will explore the use of mean-variance optimization to determine a company's optimal new business written premium mix for a given geographical area, predicting statewide product mixes using varying rate regulation scenarios, involving profit caps and measuring/testing a market's competitiveness for a given line of business. The scope of the ideas to be presented is international, applying to property, liability, individual and group life; individual and group health; disability and accidental insurance. Examples will be presented for general insurance in the United States

Description: Collision coverage helps pay to repair or replace vehicles if damaged in an accident with another vehicle or object.