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New Trends in Supplemental Benefits: Vision and Hearing
New Trends in Supplemental Benefits: Vision and Hearing New technologies have created alternative ... somewhat more expensive, costs $100. The wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) costs about $280, and ...- Authors: Floyd Martin, Matt Wickham, Charles I Berlin
- Date: Jun 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Bringing a Health Care Product to Market - A Case Study
Bringing a Health Care Product to Market - A Case Study This is a highly interactive role-playing ... written down. Wouldn't that be an interesting dynamic? On page 3 of your deposition, you talk about your ...- Authors: Dawn E Helwig, Karl Volkmar, Brad S Linder
- Date: Oct 2004
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Recent Mergers and Acquisitions Activity in the Health Arena - Implications for the Future
Recent Mergers and Acquisitions Activity in the Health Arena - Implications for the ... transactions primarily comes from. Another interesting dynamic is that before this deal The Hartford was the number ...- Authors: Thomas Corcoran, Eric L Smithback, Brian A Kane
- Date: Oct 2004
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Designing your Nontraditional Product from Start to Finish: Matching Underwriting to Experience
Designing your Nontraditional Product from Start to Finish: Matching Underwriting to Experience ... the state, and that creates a whole new pricing dynamic. Market pricing is determinable far more easily ...- Authors: Ian G Duncan, Michelle Moloney, Van Beach, George Stadtlander
- Date: Jun 2004
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance
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Target Surplus and Reserves for Health Plans
Target Surplus and Reserves for Health Plans Measurement and benchmarking of surplus levels provide ... testing (CFT), gross premium valuation (GPV) and dynamic solvency testing (DST). To set the stage on ...- Authors: John Lloyd, John M Stenson, Daniel Pribe
- Date: May 2004
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Health Valuation Issues: Traditional Products
Health Valuation Issues: Traditional Products Panelists lead participants in a discussion ... experiencing double-digit trends. The environment is dynamic and moving along very rapidly. We frequently get ...- Authors: Jin-Dih Shih, Martin Staehlin, Kenny W Kan
- Date: Jun 2003
- Competency: Communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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How Much in Enough? Capital And Surplus Management for Health Entities
actuaries. We work in a world that is somewhat dynamic and particularly reactive. As a result, and in ... have tried to force health actuaries into using dynamic financial analysis (DFA). DFA is, essentially ...- Authors: James E Drennan, John Lloyd, Richard E Swift
- Date: Jun 2003
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Update on Provider Contracting
Update on Provider Contracting Panelists discuss the contractual relationships between health-care ... On average, it's about 36 percent. And this dynamic is going to be an important part of our commercial ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Oscar Lucas, Patrick F Gilligan
- Date: Oct 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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New Paradigms of Provider and Network Management
New Paradigms of Provider and Network Management Experts discuss new strategies related to provider ... and relatively low cost per service, then the dynamic is much more something that physicians can manage ...- Authors: Dennis Hulet, Jay C Ripps, Thomas Snook, John M Wray
- Date: Jun 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Surplus Management for Health Entities
Surplus Management for Health Entities Attendees gain exposure to various approaches for effective ... So on that side of it, you've always got that dynamic going on that is working against the management ...- Authors: Phyllis Doran, Thomas Snook, Richard A Swift, Douglas B Sherlock
- Date: Jun 2002
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Trends in Large Claims
Trends in Large Claims Panelists and audience members give their views on health-insurance ... problems are classic. The medical aspect is so dynamic that it's hard to isolate a single component. It's ...- Authors: Thomas Doran, Patrick L Collins, Timothy Robinson, Russel Hugh
- Date: Jun 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Effectively Implementing Managed Care in the Small Group and Individual Markets
Effectively Implementing Managed Care in the Small Group and Individual Markets Panelists discuss ... convince them they could do some unusual, very dynamic things like pre-admission testing. They would ...- Authors: James O'Connor, James F Hall, Catherine Young
- Date: Jun 1999
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Medicare + Choices: Impact of Self-Selection
Medicare + Choices: Impact of Self-Selection Panelists discuss different aspects of self-selection ... does vary a lot from plan to plan. Selection is dynamic: it changes over time. Finally, we must also ...- Authors: Gregory Delamarter, Eric L Smithback, Dale Yamamoto, Sally T Burner, Roger Schacht
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare; Social Insurance>Medicare
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Risk-Based Capital for Health Organizations
Risk-Based Capital for Health Organizations Panelists report on the status of activities by national ... test (current ratio) falls below threshold *Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Financial reporting— ...- Authors: Julia T Philips, Donna C Novak, Steven Wander
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Health & Disability>Health risks
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Health Insurance and the Valuation Actuary
The interest rate is tied to the life insurance dynamic interest rate and that's currently at 4.5%. l ... constructed table of your own. There were too many dynamic variables to rely solely on a static reserve basis ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Michael Francescone, Frank E Knorr, Glenn A Giese
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Disability insurance; Health & Disability>Health care; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance
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Physician Incentive Programs
Physician Incentive Programs Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring ... location and then the structure of the managed care dynamic in your marketplace are all going to impact how ...- Authors: Larry Pfannerstill, Martin Staehlin, Application Administrator
- Date: May 1997
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Risk-Based Capital According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners 'NAIC'
Risk-Based Capital According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners 'NAIC' ... health insurance. Mr. Wilcox: If we went to do dynamic solvency analysis across the board, then we could ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Steven Lippai, Donna C Novak, Robert Wilcox
- Date: Oct 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy
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Health Insurance and the Valuation Actuary
vitality of the company. This flows out of the dynamic solvency adequacy testing that they are required ... adequate. There has been some work done in the Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Handbook and some ...- Authors: Jerry E Lusk, Donald J Martineau, Ed Butler
- Date: Jun 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Risk-Based Capital: Health Organizations
Risk-Based Capital: Health Organizations This panel will discuss the current status of ... products. The amount of dividends was one of the dynamic features of the model. It varied with the accumulated ...- Authors: Darrell Knapp, Steven Lippai, Robert E Wilcox
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy
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Medical Savings Accounts
Medical Savings Accounts Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting ... costs at the bottom may drop. I see it like the dynamic scoring they try to do in Washington when they're ...- Authors: Roland E King, Mark E Litow, Harry L Sutton
- Date: Jun 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Capitation Issues
Capitation Issues This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews capitation arrangements ... are several opportunities for actuaries in the dynamic health care environment, such as clinical medical ...- Authors: Stephanie B Byrne, Mark J Cary
- Date: Jun 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Provider Network Building In Nonmetropolitan Areas
small town, and there's a very close-knit kind of dynamic there. 62 PROVIDER NETWORK BUILDING IN NONMETROPOLITAN ... variations of those. But it's a very interesting dynamic in markets, because once a primary-care physician ...- Authors: James O'Connor, Roy H Flaherty, Douglas Freeman, Thomas L Wiley
- Date: Jun 1994
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Measuring Uncertainty in Loss Reserves
ordinarygeneral linear modeling. The second one is a dynamic logincremental modelthat usesthe Kalman filter-type ... LogIncremental LogIncremental Boot Operational Static Dynamic Strapping "time Consultants 3 3 1 7 Uoyds/RI 2 ...- Authors: Spencer M Gluck, Roger M Hayne, Thomas S Wright
- Date: Apr 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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Individual Medical - State Regulatory Issues
Individual Medical - State Regulatory Issues This session is about individual medical and ... gain acceptancefrom regulatorsand the public. A dynamic limit which would reflect the environmentalfactors ...- Authors: Application Administrator, William J Bugg, Morton B Hess, Robert Cumming
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Appointed Actuary Issues for the Health Actuary
Appointed Actuary Issues for the Health Actuary This session is about appointed actuary ... likely be developed that include dynamic morbidity models much like the dynamic models used for interest sensitive ...- Authors: Application Administrator, John A Hartnedy, Timothy Harris, Arthur Wilmes
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Disability insurance; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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The Latin-American Market
The Latin-American Market 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session was about ... Reinsuranceadministrationmust be able to handle a dynamic retentionbased on currencyfluctuations. Beginningwith ...- Authors: Kevin Law, Camilo Salazar, Richard D Umstead, Enrique Kozolchyk
- Date: Apr 1993
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Annuities>Marketing and distribution - Annuities; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance
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Actuary's Role Under a National Health Insurance Plan
understand that we're working and living in a political dynamic. I see a number of phases coming out. There are ... forces over the next decade and look at a much more dynamic model as we're trying to develop projections.- Authors: Roland E King, Darrell Knapp, Keith Weaver, Frederick B Abbey
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy
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Product Management
Product Management 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management ... to market fast enough? - SetlJngassumptions - Dynamic budgeting models (breakdownanalysis) • Project ...- Authors: John Hele, Anne Katcher, Alastair G Longley-Cook, Steven Schreiber, John F Bevacqua
- Date: Jun 1992
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Annuities; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance
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Mid-Size and Large Group Medical Issues [25+ Lives]
Mid-Size and Large Group Medical Issues [25+ Lives] This 1991 panel discussion is about mid-size ... Samuelson theory related to hog prices, called the Dynamic Cobweb Theory. I like it because of the visual ...- Authors: Thomas Handley, John Lloyd, David A Harvey, JEANNETTE J HERRMANN
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Health Insurance Surplus Requirements and Management
Health Insurance Surplus Requirements and Management At this presentation, the panelists address ... amounts of risk assumed. This has been called dynamic surplus, or risk-based capital. An NAIC task force ...- Authors: Charles S Fuhrer, Donald M Peterson, Thomas Snook, William C Weller, Albert D Cole
- Date: Jun 1991
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Employee Benefit Design from a Human Resources Management Perspective
plan is to get a handle on the problem or other dynamic that requires a response. In this case the problem ... programs that take into consideration all of the dynamic factors that I've mentioned. We're continuing to ...- Authors: Ronnie Susan Thierman, Bruce D Zimmerman, Charles R Christian, William Jenkins, Wayne E Page
- Date: Apr 1990
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Health & Disability>Health insurance; Pensions & Retirement>Plan design
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Flexible Benefits Update
Flexible Benefits Update This session discussion is about plan design, pricing considerations, actual ... In addition, the culture at Wilson is fairly dynamic. I came from a PepsiCo organization. I had been ...- Authors: Thomas R Boldt, Alfred J Masciocchi, Harvey Sobel, Stephen Parahus, Janet McCullough
- Date: Apr 1989
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Surplus Management For Health Insurers
insurance. Target surplus formulas began to use a more dynamic approach. Somewhat arbitrary factors were applied ... through a formula and come up with a number. Its a dynamic modeling approach. MR. RICCI: When you're looking ...- Authors: John Ames, Richard Kischuk, Donald M Peterson, David A Ricci
- Date: Apr 1989
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Effective Managed Care Design
Effective Managed Care Design Panelists discuss the various managed-care alternatives as ... managed care presentation addresses one of the more dynamic aspects of the contemporary health care delivery ...- Authors: Howard Atkinson, Marianne Brackey, Jean M Wodarczyk
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Risk Absorption while Providing Health Benefits
Risk Absorption while Providing Health Benefits Panelists discuss the various types of risks ... needed. We need to incorporate assumptions about dynamic relationships, making assumptions on how the future ...- Authors: Kevin Dolsky, Paul R Fleischacker, Randall Herman, Nancy F Nelson, Mary Brainerd
- Date: Oct 1987
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Non-Traditional Marketing Through Broadcast Media
your total response in. Television is a very dynamic media. We can look at each TV station as a list ... costs as direct mail. And because television is dynamic, it allows you to continue to retest while you're ...- Authors: John Ladley, Gary A Kauffman, Eugene R Raitt
- Date: Oct 1986
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance
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Individual Health Insurance Reserve Issues
1987. It would seem preferable to have a more dynamic approach for determin- ing the interest rate, perhaps ... date. In effect, that would move us back to the dynamic interest rate provided for under the existing minimum ...- Authors: E Paul Barnhart, Robert Dobson, Jan O'Sullivan, Mark E Litow, W H Odell
- Date: Oct 1985
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Health Insurance Financial Reporting Issues
Health Insurance Financial Reporting Issues Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses ... process of developing a new approach that will be dynamic and will use the same refund calculation process ...- Authors: William L Bogardus, Robert Ruderman, Timothy J Tongson, Ronald M Wolf
- Date: May 1985
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Trends In Group Medical Product Design
strong-felt need to put a plan into place that is more dynamic, that can function well in the future. This, again ... commonly done in that setting. And so again we have dynamic design - changing these things, adjustment, modifying ...- Authors: James C Charling, Paul R Fleischacker, Earl Hoffman, Matt B Jones, Richard M Niemiec
- Date: May 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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The Professional Challenge Of Individual Medical Insurance
The Professional Challenge Of Individual Medical Insurance This session from the 1984 SOA ... deductible erosion, which can be combatted with dynamic deductibles in new products and insurer initiatives ...- Authors: Application Administrator, E Paul Barnhart, Charles Larimer, Stephen A Riley
- Date: Apr 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Recent Development in Health Insurance Minimum Loss Ratio Regulation
Recent Development in Health Insurance Minimum Loss Ratio Regulation This session focused ... because of inflation. So, if loss ratios need to be dynamic in nature, you have to allow for changes in loss ...- Authors: E Paul Barnhart, Robert C Nuding, Francis T O'Grady, Robert Shapland
- Date: May 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Individual Accident and Health Rate Regulation Issues
Individual Accident and Health Rate Regulation Issues This 1981 session dealt with individual ... that the loss ratio guidelines must be viewed as dynamic and not static. Certain factors, such as the $I00 ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Roger C Day, Robert Shapland
- Date: May 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Impact of Inflation in Group Insurance
SON, ALASTAIR G. LONGLEY-COOK, GERO[D FREY i. Dynamic pricing alternatives 2. Trend towards "Administrative ... on which I am scheduled to speak. The first is dynamic pricing alternatives. I wasn't quite sure what ...- Authors: John Cookson, Gerold W Frey, Peter L Hutchings, Alastair G Longley-Cook
- Date: Jun 1980
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Impact of Inflation in Group Insurance
PRAY, DAVID W. KRUEGER, WALTER C. WOODWARD i. Dynamic pricing alternatives 2. Trend towards "Administrative ... of Wausau. He will ad- dress the topics of: i) Dynamic pricing alternatives; 2) Changes in re- serve techniques; ...- Authors: Paul R Fleischacker, David W Krueger, David W Pray, Walter C. Woodward
- Date: May 1980
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
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Effects of Consumerism & Regulation on the Health Insurance Industry in Canada and the United States
Effects of Consumerism & Regulation on the Health Insurance Industry in Canada and the ... they are both inherent and desirable in a free, dynamic, democratic society and that, not only ought we ...- Authors: Willis W Burgess, D Wayne Carstens, Raymond L Whaley, Lear P Wood
- Date: Jun 1979
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy