Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This article discusses the problems in estimating the prevalence of HIV infection.

Description: This is a book review of 'What Healthy People Know by Dr. Bob Gleeson, a book focusing on the seven things that healthy people do to say healthy and live long. The reviewer relates these activities to the actuarial career.

Description: This article is about pet insurance. In the past two years, the major U.S. pet insurer has doubled the number of policies in force to 75,000, while many thousands of other cats and dogs are insured by regional HMOs formed by veterinarians.

Description: This article highlights the provisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: This article contains a listing of the publications of the National Center for Health Statistics. Copies of any of the listed publications can be obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, Maryland. In ordering, the series number and the number within the series should be given.

Description: This article summarizes the work of two work groups of the American Academy of Actuaries, one focused on Medical Savings Accounts and one focused on proposed changes to Medicare.

Description: This article reviews the results of the first SOA study of large medical claims, defined as claims greater than $25,000.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.