Description: Details of an actuary’s project to help a local nonprofit agency improve its data analysis and customer service issues.

Description: In the article in The Actuary, April 1972 the writer referred to the 15-year study of aging by Professor Edman Palmore of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development of Duke University. His research indicated that work satisfaction was the best overall predictor of longevity and the second was overall happiness, reflecting a person's general satisfaction with his or her situation. The author discusses Work in America a paper written during the Nixon administration.

Description: Feature article about the effects of obesity on life expectancy and how actuaries will be affected.

Description: Article Health Insurance in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Describes the three types of HMOs and the progress they are making in lowering medical costs and gaining market share. Also discusses possible future developments with HMOs.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that discusses rising health care costs and the challenge it is to actuaries to study the numerous causes and to devise practical means for modifying their effects.

Description: Discusses the financial impact upon the medical plans for group policyholders, caused by the requirement to continue within the group plan employees and their dependents who become ineligible under the regular eligibility provisions.

Description: This article reviews environmental issues as discussed in The Doomsday Book by Thames and Hudson, London. From The Actuary, May 1971, Vol. 5, No. 5.

Description: This report is a brief summary of a symposium held in Sweden in March 1972, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish insurance companies which discusses the side effects of the development of modern chemical industry and the exposure of living organisms to a variety of chemicals in the environment. The danger of the long term effects on health are addressed.

Description: Author provides rationale for his disagreement with the latest draft proposal of reserve standards for health insurance that is being considered by the NAIC for adoption.