Description: An overview of Electronic Health Records and how they will enhance risk assessment and automated underwriting in the US.

Description: This article notes the available pulications from Hank George, an underwriting expert, that will help keep you up to date on the subject.

Description: Discusses the natural history of AIDS and some of the impact on underwriting, the methods for projecting the epidemic from both a population and insurance standpoint, the potential of the AIDS epidemic in terms of reinsurance and solvency reserves. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Advice and lessons learned from two industry leaders on how to account for organizational culture and strategy, InsurTech, and customers in order to build a winning environment for innovation and execution.

Description: Book review of Life Company Underwriting, Life Office Management Association, which covers underwriting practice and many related administrative issues.

Description: In May of 2006 the Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee of the SOA surveyed both reinsurers and direct companies about their practices with respect to making business decisions in the underwriting process. This article highlights the comparison of the results of the two surveys.

Description: This is an article about genetics, diagnostic testing and related underwriting of insurance policies.

Description: The article warns actuaries that using predictive models in the underwriting process has a strong potential of inadvertently using variables that are prohibited by law.

Description: These discussions at the 1959 Atlanta and San Francisco Regional Meetings look at underwriting issues including mortality experience under guaranteed issue, trends in salary allotment plans, underwriting expense, and mortality experience as a result of higher nonmedical limits.

Description: This report examines mortality and other actuarial assumptions for products sold at older ages.