Description: This is an article that highlights recommended reading by the Health Practice area communications committee. The readings cover a broad subject matter from risk assessment, medical technology to uninsured.

Description: This article summarizes a recent session at an SOA meeting that presented tips on improving and speeding the product filing process.

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: Tree models have been found to provide a good fit to group long term disability recovery and mortality rates. This research paper provides an overview of tree models, and details how they have been used for developing these rates.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This is a book review of 'What Healthy People Know by Dr. Bob Gleeson, a book focusing on the seven things that healthy people do to say healthy and live long. The reviewer relates these activities to the actuarial career.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: The devastation wrought by opioid related deaths is national news. This article looks at the details behind the statistics.