Description: Adding aggregating specific provisions to individual stop loss contracts reduces premium outlay but often priced incorectly by insurers. Includes lasering concept. Issue No. 46.

Description: Uses Monte Carol simulation to discuss increase in aggregate stop loss claim frequencies due to changes in selling strategies, August 2000, Issue No. 38.

Description: Current Issues In Stop Loss Market by Daniel L. Wolak from Health Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 41.

Description: Contains two separate articles, called notes. The first note, “A note on correlation in mean variance portfolio theory,” is an elementary discussion of how negative correlation coefficients can be, given any set of N random variables. The second note, “Two essential formulas in actuarial science and financial mathematics,” gives a more or less self-contained introduction to Jensen’s inequality and to another formula, which the author decided to call the “survival function expectation formula.”

Description: Article builds on similar article in January 2002 issue and presents brief discussion on extra stop-loss risk. Health Section News, June 2002, Issue 46

Description: The impact of benefit design on the cost of Aggregate Stop-Loss Coverage. Issue No. 42.