Description: Review of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, and author insight into the importance of actuarial checklists.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses the mass marketing of individual health insurance, including Section 125 products, trends and problems in direct response, and claim settlement issues.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: If the Internet Life, Health, Annuity, and P&C Insurance Company also known as Insurance.com were formed, it would be a very good investment based on the performance of other companies with the word Internet in the name and the “dot com” that follows. But would it sell insurance and would it be profitable?

Description: What We Did On Our Summer Vacation: The Joint Regional Seminars In The Far East by Jay M. Jaffe from NewsDirect Newsletter, September 2002, Issue No. 41.

Description: Full version of NewsDirect Newsletter, January 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: Updating relevancy of accidental death insurance for seniors

Description: In this paper, Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, the author discusses the relative lack of personal insurance programs in third world countries, and the opportunities and challenges this presents to entrepreneurial actuaries. This essay discusses approaches for solving the issues in order that personal insurance programs in the third world will become a viable business opportunity. In addition to being an opportunity, the author believes this should also be an area in which actuaries feel a responsibility for finding solutions, because actuaries understand the problems and can find the answers. The author also suggests ways the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section can help.

Description: Feature article discussing the findings of a recent CDC report and offering a challenge to actuaries in response to those findings.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting reviews individual annuities, specifically IRA sales by insurance companies, separate account options, the brokerage market, bail-out options, SPDA's and accounting issues.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Products - design, policy provisions, impact from changes in the health care system, Marketing - traditional and alternative distribution systems and concept of product brokerage, and Administration - cost effectiveness, group trust mechanisms, use of technology, regulatory environment.