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: An analytical basis about national trends and state specific factors that may be driving the auto insurance loss costs.

Description: The transportation industry is in the early stages of profound changes, due to development of sophisticated driving safety and automation technologies.

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

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: This abstract describes studies that further the understanding of risk surrounding automated vehicle technology.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents a comprehensive overview of deductible ratemaking.