Description: This article lists the top priority issues for SOA health committees for 2003 and their support for the Healthcare System in Crisis project, which is focused on giving the public an actuarial perspective on the dynamics and interrelationships of the healthcare system.

Description: Article reporting the results of interviews/surveys on the level of success companies were having with automated life underwriting.

Description: Med Supp

Description: This article is about the concept of the Sentinel Effect SE—that selfselection process which directs unhealthy insurance applicants to apply for coverage at amounts where testing is not done, thereby minimizing the chances that their afflictions will be discovered.

Description: This is the second installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs.

Description: This article discusses the results of a LIMRA survey about the use of the internet by life insurance and annuity consumers.

Description: This article looks at trends in direct marketing with an emphasis on new technology for the internet and software for Straight Through Processing.

Description: This article summarizes two sessions sponsored by the Nontraditional Marketing Section at a recent SOA meeting held in Washington, D.C. One session was about debt cancellation insurance and the other was about voluntary benefit plans.

Description: This article introduces The Product/Channel Directory, which provides the combination of products offered and distribution channels for over 200 companies.

Description: In the face of declining response rates from direct mail campaigns, the author suggests use of the internet to generate leads will be much more efficient and successful.