Description: This is an Excel workbook that can be used as a tool for health insurance companies to model their potential risk exposure from an influenza pandemic. It is based on a model developed for a Society of Actuaries study examining the potential implications of a pandemic on the U.S. health insurance industry. The spreadsheet is saved with many of the same assumptions used in this research and reproduces the results of the exhibits contained in the June 2010 report, 'Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Health Insurance Industry.'

Description: This section contains book reviews and summaries of recently published works on subjects including demography, savings in the U.S., life company state examinations, private pensions, Industrial insurance, medical care, and union welfare plans.

Description: This article is about pet insurance. In the past two years, the major U.S. pet insurer has doubled the number of policies in force to 75,000, while many thousands of other cats and dogs are insured by regional HMOs formed by veterinarians.

Description: The presenters will focus on best practices in drug claim management in North America. The presentation is geared toward Canadian practice and insights, but is useful for practitioners in the U.S. and elsewhere, as well.

Description: The SOA is releasing this brief report which summarizes the results of the latest National Health Expenditure (NHE) data released by the U.S. Government. This report highlights some of the key elements of the 2018 NHE data and compares them to prior year data and projections.

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to provide a practical set of changes to the incidence rate modifiers of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect recent industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends from 2005 through 2015. The goal is to have resulting 2005-2015 experience-based incidence modifiers in a workable format to facilitate its use.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: This paper reviews data from the accident study for years 1930-1935 to see if there are any relationships between disabled worker mortality and standard mortality that might endure to the present. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: This section of book reviews covers topics of pension mathematics, cost of hospital care, variable life insurance, probability theory and early retirement programs. Also included in this article is information from U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 68.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1967 Annual Meeting covers three topics. First is the Carter Commission Report that recommends radical changes to the Canadian tax system. Second is a report on U.S. federal government activities in the health market. Third is an update on variable annuities.