Description: This article discusses fringe benefits for the retired from a 1967 meeting of the Canadian Pension Conference.

Description: Discusses the features of, and the development of, the new disability income valuation table, the 1985 Commissioner's Individual Disability Tables A, or CIDA. Also mentions the 1985 CIDB developed by E. Paul Barnhart.

Description: September’s Actuary contained an excellent summary by Drew Davidoff of renewal rating for small group medical business. Among the techniques he describes are age, sex, and area rating, experience rating using credibility, experience rating using tiers, examination of the diagnoses in the claim file, and initial and reentry medical underwriting.

Description: This article discusses the growing number of cases of dementia and its effects on economics and loved ones.

Description: Attempts to explain the need for premium increases on level-premium, guaranteed-renewable health-insurance policies. It presents a perspective on loss ratios for such policies that may be helpful to an insurer in reflecting a regulator's or consumer's viewpoint.

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: Discusses variability in per capita health-care costs by health-care provider.

Description: The viability and future outlook for the individual disability industry has dramatically improved from where it was 10 years ago. Evidence of this turn–around can be found in the industry's current profitability and its development of new markets. This article discusses where the market stands today.

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: A call for papers on health insurance topics to enhance the program for a 1979 special topic meeting of the Society of Actuaries.