Description: This article covers the inaugural edition of Re-News. From Reinsurance News, February 2005. Article from Re-news, February, 2005.

Description: Tax considerations in structuring and pricing long-term care transactions. Includes consideration around the form of reinsurance and the unified loss rules applicable to stock transactions where they is a bargain purchase (also known as a tax basis step-down)

Description: The presenters describe the process payers and employers can use to evaluate emerging medical device technologies, recent or pending FDA submissions for prescription drugs and experimental treatments that impact patient care, resource utilization and health care expenditures. Learn the process of identifying and selecting impactful treatments (Horizon Scanning) and quantifying the financial cost of new technologies before they arrive in the market. These workflows can be leveraged by actuaries, healthcare economists, clinicians and pharmacists from a payer (Commercial and Medicare) and employer perspective for self-funded plans. Walk through sample models that illustrate how costs for emerging technologies and treatments can be modeled.

Description: This articles discusses the results of a first quarter 2019 online survey sponsored by the Reinsurance Section Council.

Description: With the IDI market consolidating, panelists at this session 47PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss significant considerations in selling or buying a block of IDI business, relative to reinsurance, valuation, tax, and regulatory issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: The cyber insurance market looks like it’s growing—rapidly, in fact. However, there’s more to the cyber insurance market than the outward appearance of strong growth. Worldwide aggregate premium’s upward trend may even be cause for alarm. The increase in premium against a flat rate of insured exposure is a key sign that the market could turn from growth to constriction if a solution isn’t found in the near future. If the cyber insurance sector hopes to reach such lofty goals as exceeding $30 billion in global premium by 2028, it’s going to need more capital. Whether directly into the insurance sector or via support from reinsurance and retrocession, fresh capital should help insurers achieve greater market penetration, build a broader foundation for ongoing expansion, and chart a course for long-term sustainable profitable growth. The same sources capital insurers have used since the early days of the market won’t be enough, though. Thankfully, the insurance linked securities (ILS) market seems poised to help, particularly with several promising recent transactions. New sources of capital could bolster the foundation for future cyber re/insurance growth.

Description: Q&A with Neil Sprackling, President, US Life & Health, Swiss Re, on next-generation underwriting.

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: This presentation is an open forum, session 49OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. Insurance and reinsurance companies have sought to pool their risks with others as a means of sharing risk as well as reducing volatility. The panelists provide a history of pool reinsurance and discuss how, unfortunately, participating in a pool can result in surprises and exposure to liabilities never anticipated. They discuss why many of these surprises have occurred, review actual case studies, and discuss what companies and reinsurers are doing to reduce and/or eliminate mistakes going forward. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Five industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the life insurance and life reinsurance industry were honored with the Insurance Legends award at ReFocus 2008, the premier conference for reinsurance industry professionals.