Description: Presenters focus on ways in which life and disability risk assessment and management might be directed in the first decade of the 21st century. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3, session 10 PD of the New York Annual Meeting

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: Underwriting individual disability insurance is a complex process that draws on many different disciplines. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1., session 25 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.