Description: This literature guide focuses on the distribution costs, especially the field compensation costs, that are incurred through the traditional general agency, branch office or brokerage structures for individual life, annuity and disability products.

Description: A health actuary describes her journey as a parent of a child with medical needs, and the complexities associated with navigating the health insurance industry.

Description: There is a wide range of literature on aging and health care. We sample this literature and find it fits into the subcategories of theoretical aging, medical significance of aging, treatment of the elderly, and resource allocation to the elderly. Themes are that financial arrangements can cause inefficient and ineffective care and that care guidelines need to developed specifically for the elderly rather than extrapolating guidelines for younger patients.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Pension Section and Health Section Research teams commissioned Professor Thomas E. Getzen of Temple University to construct a resource model for the projection of long term healthcare cost trends. The motivation for creation of the model was driven by its potential usage as a resource for the estimation of reportable liabilities for retiree healthcare benefits as specified under FAS 106 and GASB 45 accounting statements. This model, programmed in Microsoft Excel [xlsx format], projects per-person expenditures and growth rates through 2099 using a set of equations and assumptions developed by Professor Getzen with assistance from the Society of Actuaries Project Oversight Group appointed to oversee the effort. The model includes baseline assumptions as well as flexibility for user–inputted alternative assumptions.

Description: Covers the 1978 - 1982 morbidity experience for employer/employee groups.

Description: Discusses the significant historical facts and trends in the development of Individual Health and Accident Insurance business, the types of benefits offered by various carriers, and in what ways the purposes, problems and practices of health and accident insurance relate to those of life insurance.

Description: Discusses basic principles which should be observed in the selection of risks for individual health insurance, substandard underwriting, and how sales policies and claim administration practices are related to underwriting.

Description: This is the table of contents for the 1972 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: This is the 1975 report of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance.

Description: This is the preface to the 1976 Report of The Committee on Group Life and Health Insurance. The report consists of the following sections: 1. Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance. 2. Group Long-Term Disability Insurance.