Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: The goal of this paper is to develop best possible estimates for the higher moments of a distribution of a positive bounded random variable, such as claim amounts, where these estimates are given in terms of the mean.

Description: Feature article about how life insurance companies can manage the financial risk of life and annuity unclaimed property.

Description: Covers individual life Canadian mortality experience for 1988 - 1989 anniversaries. Historical data from 1981 forward is also shown.

Description: Digest of a panel discussion looking at problems arising in issuing limited amounts of life insurance without a war clause to active members of the Armed Forces, types of death losses the Actuary considers as war deaths not suited for in existing premium rates and problems created by the war from the standpoint of protective provisions in disability and accidental death clauses.

Description: Discussion about: A. New forms of policies and riders, and new options which have been introduced and their level of success, B. Changes in the use of: i Settlement options? ii Special conversion options? iii Automatic premium loans? C. Recent changes in settlement option bases D. The experience of smaller companies with respect to replacement problems, and compliancecwith state replacement regulations? Discussion about new forms of policies, changes in the use of settlement options and what other smaller companies are doing about replacement problems.

Description: This section discusses several insurance-related legal cases from 1953 including: 1. STATUTE REQUIRING APPLICATION TO BE ATTACHED EFFECT OF ATTACHING EXTRA PAPER: Nacchio v. New York Life Insurance Company 2. DATE Or LAPSEPoLICY NOT EFFECTIVE UNTIL DELIVERY: Pyramid Life Insurance Company vs. Williams 3. DOUBLE INDEMNITYWAIVER AND ESTOPPELINSURER'S FAILURE TO INFORM INSURED POLICY WAS NOT ISSUED AS APPLIED FOR: Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society vs. Counts 4. KILLING OF INSURED BY HEIRINHERITANCE OF POLICY PROCEEDS: Strickland vs. Wysowatcky, 5. PREMIUM TAXES-RETALIATION: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Parkinson, 6. AGENT AS BENEFICIARY-CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP: Fifield vs. Crowe, 7. MISREPRESENTATION As TO OCCUPATION AND HABITSPROFESSIONAL GAMBLER: DeBellis vs. United Benefit Life Insurance Company, 8. WAR EXCLUSION-UNDECLARED WAR: Beley vs. Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. DOUBLE INDEMNITYAVIATION EXCLUSIONMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows, 10. STATF LIFE FUNDREJECTION OF ALL COLORED APPLICANTS: Lange vs. Rancher

Description: Covers individual life mortality experience between 1980 - 1981 anniversaries and 1976 - 1981 anniversaries.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium explores claim reserves, including reserves for stop-loss products, claims reserves for group disability insurance products LTD, and claim reserves for shorter term claim payouts primarily major medical type products and Medicare supplement type products. It also covers Actuarial Standard of Practice 5 dealing with incurred health claim liabilitities.