Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting discusses how the employer stop-loss market has experienced turbulence in recent years. Panelists discuss their views on this market, including market size and growth, whether or not pricing is softening, claim cost trends and underwriting. Session 3PD.

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session takes a hard look at Lloyd’s of London, examines how it has reached its current state of affairs, the role of Equitas, the impact of corporate capital and the firm's outlook.

Description: First dollar carriers, stop loss carriers, and reinsurers play a different role in reimbursing healthcare claims. This article explores the reinsurer's role in reimbursing COVID-19 related claims.

Description: This session explores the issues raised and logistical problems encountered in setting risk-based capital RBC factors for various health products. Also discussed is the development of surplus requriements for disability income products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 95

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: Contains two separate articles, called notes. The first note, “A note on correlation in mean variance portfolio theory,” is an elementary discussion of how negative correlation coefficients can be, given any set of N random variables. The second note, “Two essential formulas in actuarial science and financial mathematics,” gives a more or less self-contained introduction to Jensen’s inequality and to another formula, which the author decided to call the “survival function expectation formula.”

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: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session discusses the pricing and underwriting of medical stop-loss insurance, including: self-funded medical insurance, provider excess market and HMOs.

Description: In the context of reinsurance, this paper addresses finding the quota share retention level and the retention limit, with a diffusion process being added to the claim process, that maximizes the adjustment coefficient in the Sparre Anderson model. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: A comparison of fully insured medical insurance to two self- funding alternatives , specific and aggregate and level funding .