Description: The principal objective of this paper is to remind actuaries of the rather significant misconceptions and distortions commonly encountered in the use of individual accident and health insurance loss ratios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims using currently available software to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This paper examines the financial dynamics resulting from the currency exchange rate for medical insurance products that are denominated in a currency different from that in which covered medical expenses are incurred. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: Discussion of accident and sickness policies, including issues with underwriting and points for improvement. Transactions of SOA Vol. 6 No. 16

Description: This paper addresses pricing stop loss insurance by employee for two benefits combined when the available information included a claims probability distribution for each benefit and the correlation coefficient between the benefits. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1

Description: This paper provides an outline of the pricing methodology used by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia which incorporates trend analysis by trend component. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This research report is to measure the variation in group medical insurance claim costs by duration from issue in small groups with 1 - 25 employees .

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.

Description: In this paper the authors analyze data from group medical expense insurance claims and show that many insurance loss distributions have very 'heavy tails' because large losses represent a disproportionate fraction of the total cost. They also present a simple model to reproduce and explain the large loss behavior. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990, VOL. 2

Description: This paper presents research results from a study on health carrier insolvencies. Carriers studies include commercial insurance companies, Blue Cross/Blue Shield pland and health maintenance organizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.