Description: Presents credibility formulas that are designed to be specifically applicable to group insurance, and which are based on group size and are adjustable for changes in group membership, etc. The practical motivation and use of these formulas are discussed.

Description: This paper focuses on credibility when used in the underwriting and pricing of group medical insurance. In this report, group medical refers to broad comprehensive major medical coverage that reimburses the insured for practically all necessary health-related services, subject only to a very high payment limit and modest member cost-sharing in the form of copays, deductibles, and coinsurance. Readers are expected to have some familiarity with this coverage.

Description: This session discussion is about experience-rating and credibility in group health insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 32PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. The concept of data warehousing means different things to different people. For actuaries, the primary focus is on improved access to timely information and applications that enable them to work more efficiently and produce better results. The panelists discuss the business side of data warehouses, noting that the real value in a data warehouse, or in an analytic platform, is whether you can actually use the data after you get it out, and discuss experiences in building data warehouses for actuaries in life and health companies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed credibility theory. Areas addressed included defining credibility and the complexities of measuring it with an emphasis on group medical insurance.

Description: Article builds on similar article in January 2002 issue and presents brief discussion on extra stop-loss risk. Health Section News, June 2002, Issue 46

Description: This article comments on the editorial policies of the Actuarial Research Clearing House publication. ARCH 1994 Vol 1

Description: Presenter offers ways in which actuaries might set credibility levels to be used by underwriters to set group health insurance expected benefits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This article comments on the editorial policies of the Actuarial Research Clearing House publication. ARCH 1994 Vol 2

Description: This article describes the primary goal of the Actuarial Research Clearing House [ARCH], its editorial policy and the procedure for submitting manuscripts. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992, Vol. 2.