Description: Feature article discussing one of the themes of last year’s Living to 100 Symposium; socio-economic differences in mortality.

Description: In session 28TS of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss issues related to retention limits for individual life and disability income DI reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

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

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: Munich American's annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Statistical Research Committee of the Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.