Description: Panelists will discuss considerations identified and the challenges encountered by companies in developing and using predictive models in the life insurance underwriting process.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This report presents the results of the Survey on Business Decision practices of reinsurers conducted by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys . A survey of direct writers of life insurance is reported separately.

Description: Learn about business Analytics in Insurance - Practical case studies and implementation.

Description: Top 10 myths and truths about EHRs.

Description: This is a discussion from the June 2000 meeting of the Society of Actuaries in San Diego, looking at the evolution of e-commerce for the insurance business.

Description: This session 36TS of the Toronto Spring Meeting discusses selected concepts that relate to risk appraisal in new business issuance and underwriting. Specific attention is focused on the relative values of underwriting tools, namely fluid collection: blood, urine, and oral fluid. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 36TS

Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. In this session panelists presented an overview of underwriting processes for a variety of product lines. They also discuss related topics such as identifying keys to underwriting decisions, the cost of underwriting and protective value, and ensuring consistency with pricing assumptions. Some of the underwriting tools discussed were use of RX history, credit checks, DMV history, and fraud data bases.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents new information and approaches that address the impact of underwriting on mortality. Topics include developing issues in insurance medicine, preferred underwriting guidelines, laboratory testing, and monitoring results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Medical/Technological Advances