Description: Realizing the impact of medical errors on the U.S. health care system, the Health Section commissioned a research project to measure the annual frequency of medical errors and their total measurable direct and indirect cost to the economy.

Description: In this article, the chairperson addresses the section and discusses section activities.

Description: Project Oversight Group. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: UEC Guidance on Adaptability Quotient (AQ) and Emotional Quotient (EQ) Education is an information piece intended to assist CAE universities interested in applying for the UEC program. CAEs will use this piece to identify where EQ and AQ items are incorporated into their curriculums.

Description: SOA Names Morgan State University to its University-Earned Credit Diversity Extension Program

Description: A summary of how the SAO plans to strengthen the role of the academic branch of the profession through Centers of Actuarial Excellence and Ph.D. stipends.

Description: An article that recaps the 29th Annual Actuarial Research Conference ARC. Four Bayesian -related papers were presented as well as papers on modeling and experience studies.

Description: The chairperson reports on Health Section activities: papers by the joint workgroups with the AAA's Health Practice Council to inform the public and congressional staff, papers on capital requirements under proposed health care reform and on proposed taxing of Cadillac plans, new research on IBNR reserving methods and on measuring the quality and efficiency of health care delivery systems.

Description: Book Review from The Actuary, September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8. Actuarial Mathematics by N. Bowers. H. Gerber. J. Hickman, D. Jones and C. Nesbitt. Published by the Society of Actuaries, 1986.

Description: The author describes a course he and his colleague designed and taught at Columbia University called "A Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market."