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

Description: Top 10 myths and truths about EHRs.

Description: Medical/Technological Advances

Description: This article discusses gaining a competitive advantage by reducing new-business processing costs using point-of-sale technology.

Description: The paper summarizes results from two doctoral dissertations. The first discusses integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets. The second discusses modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance, including a provision for adverse deviation PAD.

Description: Key findings from Milliman's 2019/2020 UL/IUL survey. Provides benchmarking for UL/IUL competitors relative to trends in the industry.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified theory for the evaluation of underwriting requirements where this evaluation is based on the measurement of the levels of mortality costs associated with such requirements. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined challenges posed by the onset of the 21st century to the underwriter and the actuary. Questions addressed included: 1. How can the underwriting process be expedited without surrendering required mortality margins? 2. What different information is needed? 3. Where will this information come from? 4. Who will obtain it and how will it be delivered? 5. How will the actuary assess the real value of these new sources?

Description: Discusses potential of imminent war, magnitude of risk, opinions regarding exclusion vs. inclusion of coverage in life policies, and anti-selection issues.

Description: This article explains how the use of technology and data can help a company be successful in the simplified issue life insurance market. Prescription drug profiles are a valuable new source of data for this purpose.