Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 8A: Use of Electronic Health Records in the Assessment of Life and Health Risks 9.1.21 Recording

Description: This paper develops a tool that may be useful in explaining the differences between earnings that are reported under GAAP and profits that are expressed as an internal rate of return.

Description: This paper explores available disability experience data in order to shed some light on the character and extent of the subjective influences which affect the frequency and duration of disability. A mathematical model for computing disability income premiums and reserves is also presented.

Description: This paper describes the development of the net annual claim costs, net premiums, and reserve factors that comprise the 1974 Medical Expense Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: Insurers have been getting out of the individual medical expense market. This session will address the implications of such a decision: Nature of the problem Viability of individual medical products Challenge to the actuary Consequences of withdrawal Alternatives of withdrawal. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2 at Salt Lake City

Description: This study, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ is sponsored by the SOA Futurism Section, Investment Section, Committee on Finance Research and Committee on Knowledge Extension Research. This study investigates the merits of conducting a study on economic variables utilizing the Delphi method, a futures research technique. The report consists of eight documents, the report and seven Appendices [A through G].

Description: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is in the middle of of a project to change the real-world economic scenario generator (RW ESG) prescribed for principle-based reserve and capital calculations. The presenters will provide a brief summary of the NAIC's RW ESG project and provide a general overview of RW ESGs. In addition to that, they will explain how RW ESGs impact principle-based reserve and capital levels and consider potential differences between the currently prescribed RW ESG and the proposed RW ESG.

Description: This article discusses how this improvement in performance measurement can be achieved through the use of a framework that explicitly links risk, capital and value.

Description: Discusses the reasons for, and the economic impacts of, the backdating of life insurance policies, and what changes in the industry might evolve to address them.