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

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

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews recent class action and other large legal actions against insurers, the current litigation law in Alabama and intellectual property law. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.