Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Barbara J. Lautzenheiser. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This article is about the passing of Christopher Wright, a great -grandson of the noted 19th century American actuary Elizur Wright.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to educate health care policymakers on issues including health care reform, Medicare, loss ratios, premium review, reinsurance, benefit and eligibility changes, exchanges, and risk based capital.

Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.

Description: Article The Actuarial Politician by McCrossan in The Actuary, December 1979, Volume 13, Number 10.

Description: This is an editorial by the president of the SOA on the subject of how the world views actuaries.

Description: In this “nontraditional” general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, the panelists, a “judge,” a “defendant,” and a “prosecutor” present a humorous “trial” to explore what the boundaries of “traditional” actuarial work are. A theme of the session is that some of what we call “nontraditional” is an expansion of traditional actuarial work, and that we owe it to our public to broaden our horizons. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: An overview of reinsurance training class provided to the Bermuda Monetary Authority (Authority) and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Central Bank) covering all aspects of reinsurance. Article also provides an overview of initiatives that the two regulators (Authority and Central Bank) are involved with.

Description: Presentation at June 1980 SOA meeting. Discussed the responsibility of the actuary on self-funded group insurance plans and how this might differ for consultants as opposed to insurer staff, and provides specific case studies.