Description: This presentation, session number 40OF, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the different available types of individual disability reinsurance, including excess coverage, quota share, stop loss, finite reinsurance, and financial reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Medical insurance today is more like pre-paid medical payments. Medical insurance should be bought for protection, but rarely used, like auto insurance.

Description: Dive into the challenges of practitioners working across components that make up the Risk Management infrastructure with a variety of health, life and P&C insurers in this panel discussion webcast. Panelists will highlight how these insurers operate with the data and tools available to them and the existing challenges in interactions with an organization's leadership. Be part of this webcast that delves into the interplay between first- and second-line defense and how high levels of independence and professionalism can be achieved in a fast-moving, multi-discipline cross functional ERM role.

Description: In the game of chess, both players have perfect knowledge of the board. In poker, however, players deal with asymmetric information as well as the fact that your opponent can lie. There is an old expression that smart people are “playing chess when their opponents are playing checkers.” However, playing chess when your opponent is playing poker is a recipe for disaster (for the chess player, that is). Parameter risk is more akin to poker than chess, and it is often overlooked in favor of volatility risk in stop loss and reinsurance pricing. Unlike volatility risk, however, parameter risk does not necessarily decrease as the group size increases. Understanding the impact of parameter risk can help avoid mispricing the risk at hand as well as the impulse to provide false precision. False precision can lead to poor underwriting decisions and financial losses. In this session, the presenters will provide examples of parameter risk as well as potential solutions to incorporate when building simulation models. By attending this session you will be able to recognize potential areas of parameter risk and understand techniques to incorporate parameter risk in simulation modeling.

Description: In session 102 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the uses of reinsurance with Group Disability Income DI. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.