Description: Feature article discussing what’s to transpire at the upcoming Canadian reinsurers industry meeting.

Description: Feature article focuses on the regulators who determine risk-based capital or RBC standards applicable to health plans.

Description: This article provides a summary of the research projects completed during the last half of 2011 by the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section.

Description: Feature article describing the benefits of attending the ReFocus meeting.

Description: A discussion of some of the economic advantages of Offshore Life Reinsurance

Description: “Getting to Woe Some” is a thought-provoking title for Rick Flaspöhler’s recent presentation to the ACLI Reinsurance Executive Round Table in March 2005. Flaspöhler presented the high-level findings of the biennial reinsurance survey, and in his words this industry has gone from “bad to worse.” The reinsurance industry now finds itself in a unique and difficult situation that will require dramatic steps to improve things going forward.

Description: Each health plan is unique, and different factors must be considered when making a decision regarding reinsurance deductibles. This overview offers considerations when selecting a medical excess deductible for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid programs. It is more applicable for large payers, such as HMOs, rather than self-funded employers because there’s usually not enough claims data to warrant such analysis on any given employer group. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .