Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that discusses eras in life contingencies theory. In the history of actuarial education on this continent, the subject of life contingencies has been successively presented to students in four major textbooks embracing almost exactly a century of instruction.

Description: The Education and Examination Committee recently awarded 30 Fellowship credits to Gordon Willmot for his paper entitled “A Queuing Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of the Claims Payment Process.” This marks the first such award under a new program approved unanimously by the Board of Governors in October 1987.

Description: This paper summarizes the salient techniques for evaluating and pricing the risks in group disability income coverages. This paper contains examples of how to evaluate short-term and long-term disability experience for developing manual rates. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.