Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting identify various issues that would affect a company's decision to enter the market for insurance for the terminally ill.

Description: Electronic health records continue to evolve and gain traction in the life insurance industry. But what exactly are EHRs and what are the impacts for actuaries? How they are being used today and what are the benefits and challenges of implementing EHRs in life insurance underwriting?

Description: Essay reforming healthcare where participants have a vested interest in reaching the best answer.

Description: This article notes the available pulications from Hank George, an underwriting expert, that will help keep you up to date on the subject.

Description: Summary of current state of A&H reinsurance business.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.

Description: This 1978 panel discussed risk classification systems for a variety of products. Topics covered included: 1. regulatory and social policy encroachment on risk classification systems 2. possible changes in underwriting/marketing strategy because of changed regulatory requirements 3. use of the social imperative via regulation or legislation to mandate availability of coverage to high risk classifications 4. implied use of the risk classification system to provide incentives to control socially undesirable behavior 5. potential use of private mass coverage to minimize the impact on risk classification systems for coverages mandated by law or social policy 6. the ultimate in risk classification systems: self-insurance

Description: Discusses the rapidly growing AIDS epidemic and its impact on traditional underwriting principles for life insurance and health insurance.