Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: Neil Brougham, chairman of the CPD Committee, welcomes the new certificate in practical financial economics CPFE.

Description: Insurers have been getting out of the individual medical expense market. This session will address the implications of such a decision: Nature of the problem Viability of individual medical products Challenge to the actuary Consequences of withdrawal Alternatives of withdrawal. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2 at Salt Lake City

Description: Discusses the reasons for, and the economic impacts of, the backdating of life insurance policies, and what changes in the industry might evolve to address them.

Description: Realizing the impact of medical errors on the U.S. health care system, the Health Section commissioned a research project to measure the annual frequency of medical errors and their total measurable direct and indirect cost to the economy.

Description: Panel discussion, by a physician and an actuary, about the historical forces behind various trends in organ transplant experience data.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. The presenters discuss various measures of financial results, including net income and surplus, and explore treatment of federal income tax, investment income, expenses, and generally accepted accounting principles, ‘GAAP.’ Planning, projecting, monitoring, and effective use of financial measurements are discussed.

Description: The economic crisis and the opportunities it presents.

Description: This article discusses how this improvement in performance measurement can be achieved through the use of a framework that explicitly links risk, capital and value.

Description: When an insurer classifies risks for the purpose of setting rates, one of the goals is to achieve equity. In general, however, inequities can be introduced when only certain factors are considered and others ignored. This paper, guided by ideas used by economists to measure income inequality, proposes a method of measuring this inequity. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.