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: This session 84I of the 2001 SAO Annual Meeting in New Orleans is about how many insurers are migrating toward Web-based interactive underwriting systems in order to economize and streamline the underwriting process. This requires some radically different techniques well beyond the time-honored traditional approaches. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol 27, No. 3

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: This session discusses the benefits of actuarial involvement in understand. Topics include current methods [such as teleunderwriting, use of pharmacy data] and the benefit versus cost of using various underwriting tools. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 22

Description: This session discusses how many carriers use simplified underwriting techniques or alternative underwriting approaches to streamline the underwriting/policy issue process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 130

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.

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.