Description: The Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pandemic model tool. This tool is used to project a Life Insurance companies potential losses from an influenza pandemic. Please see the SOA website for complete instructions on how to use this excel spreadsheet tool. Also see the website for the complete research report: www.soa.org/research/research-projects/life-insurance/research-impact-pan-influ-life-ins.aspx. The core of the paper is quantifying the potential impact of selected pandemic scenarios on the Life Insurance industry.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents case studies on the use of technology to solve some of the problems commonly encountered by actuaries in smaller companies.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the re-engineering process as it is being undertaken in many companies, how it is applied to the actuarial function, and how technology can be used to facilitate the change. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about re-engineering large actuarial systems. Large actuarial systems have become drains on human, computing and financial resources. And in some cases, daily actuarial functions have grown beyond the scope of normal cost-containment techniques. Re-engineering actuarial systems can significantly alter the trend.