Description: This session, from the June 2000 San Diego meeting of the Society of Actuaries, discussed ways the actuary can help the underwriter. Discussion included: 1. Overview of protective value theory 2.Simplified cost/benefit methods designing efficient underwriting rules.

Description: Discusses the natural history of AIDS and some of the impact on underwriting, the methods for projecting the epidemic from both a population and insurance standpoint, the potential of the AIDS epidemic in terms of reinsurance and solvency reserves. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. This session explores new underwriting criteria, including the following topics: What's new in simplified underwriting, Speed to decision, Electronic databases, Teleunderwriting, Prescription drug underwriting, Results analysis, Implementation.

Description: This session at the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting looks at current underwriting issues including the tools underwriters now use for appraising risk in various markets, the impact of preferred exceptions and business decisions from a pricing and claims perspective, and new ideas for assessing risk at older ages.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about types of substance misuse, impact of substance misuse on mortality and morbidity, identification and screening techniques and technology, underwriting techniques.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panel examines differences in risk assessment and underwriting that may be involved with doing business in a foreign country.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about risk-appraisal techniques for the 21st century. Topics Include: 1. Some approaches that companies take and some issues that companies face in establishing preferred-risk underwriting programs. 2. Marketing, product design, and underwriting considerations for joint and second-to-die life insurance products. 3. Establishing assumptions for preferred-risk programs as well as some of the marketplace issues that need to be considered. 4. Expert underwriting systems. 5. The need for consistency in underwriting. 6. Developing trends in testing techniques and how those trends can be utilized in the underwriting process.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about sex discrimination, impairments, and social insurance issues.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of the AIDS epidemic, legal challenges to risk classification practices, impact on practices resulting from these challenges and from trends in areas such as preferred risks and guaranteed issues, possible future developments in underwriting and risk classification and how they may impact product design and marketing.

Description: This session at the SOA 1981 New York Regional Meeting examines the practice of life insurance risk classification, societal changes in their view of the practice and the industry's response to those pressures.