Description: With the medical insurance market experiencing health care inflation of 10 to 13 percent and medical costs averaging above $8,000 per year per employee less for single employees and more for employees with families, employers are looking at alternative options. Politicians and regulators are as well.

Description: This article enumerates many important considerations for a managing general underwriter(MGU) desiring to contract with an insurance carrier to issue and service provider excess of loss policies covering catastrophic medical risks assumed by accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel examines current issues involving disability income reinsurance, presented from both the insurer and reinsurer viewpoints, including: recent reinsurer experience, problems facing DI writers, and uses of reinsurance.

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .

Description: Investigation of High Deductible Trend by G. Russel Hugh from Health Section News, January 2002, Issue No. 42.

Description: Discussion of merger and acquisitions issues pertaining to health insurance business. Includes: 1. Due diligence 2. Valuation of business 3. Administrative problems to resolve.

Description: Feature article focuses on the regulators who determine risk-based capital or RBC standards applicable to health plans.

Description: Book review of the latest edition (4th) of Life, Health, and Annuity Reinsurance by John Tiller, Jr and Denise Fagerberg Tiller

Description: Panelists discuss keys to successful disability reinsurance arrangements including excess, and turnkey/quota share reinsurance. Topics include financial terms, administrative provisions, claims, underwriting, tax and regulatory implications. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 81

Description: This article talks about ASOP No. 11, The Treatment of Reinsurance Transactions Reflecting Life or Health Insurance Risks in Financial Statements. Section 3.5, Additional Liabilities.