Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting identify various issues that would affect a company's decision to enter the market for insurance for the terminally ill.

Description: The article describes the insurance industry's preparation for pandemic events and the public finance response.

Description: View the following report regarding Risk Scoring in Health Insurance: A Primer.

Description: Chapter 2 analyzes, in table form, the study's claimant counts and charge totals, broken down by gender, age, diagnosis category, year, and by subscriber vs. dependent status. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volume 4, Issue 6

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper first explores the current state and contributing causes of obesity. It then explores the mortality and health care costs of obesity. It ends with a discussion of its management.

Description: In an effort to build a bridge between epidemiological and actuarial modeling, this paper analyzes possible financial arrangements made against expenses resulted from medical treatments given to insured patients. Based on classical compartment models, the first part of this paper designs insurance policies for susceptible participants facing the risk of infection and formulates the financial obligations of both parties using actuarial methodology. For practical purposes, the second part employs a variety of numerical methods for calculating premiums and reserves. The last part illustrates the methods by designing insurance products for the Great Plague in Eyam and the SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.

Description: A physician discusses white matter lesions on the brain - their nature, causes, severity, importance, associated risks, and underwriting implications for long term care insurance.

Description: Panelists report on the status of activities by national associations in regard to risk-based capital requirements for health insurers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Discusses basic principles which should be observed in the selection of risks for individual health insurance, substandard underwriting, and how sales policies and claim administration practices are related to underwriting.