Description: Data science is being used to create more algorithms used across a variety of applications, including underwriting and pricing. As data science gains traction, it is imperative that we as actuaries consider the ethical implications of use of these algorithms. This session will discuss techniques for evaluating whether your algorithms are inadvertently making biased decisions and considerations for ensuring that your algorithms minimize risk of making biased decisions. Learn to identify potential ethical issues with their algorithms and techniques to address them.

Description: In light of recent regulatory developments and international best practices, the Bermuda Monetary Authority has introduced proposed enhancements to the Bermuda regulatory framework for long-term commercial insurers. During this panel discussion, discuss the potential impacts of these proposed regulatory changes for existing commercial insurers and new entrants to the Bermuda life reinsurance market.

Description: Over the course of ImpAct conference, we have taken you on a journey to understand the impact of climate change to the insurance industry. We have examined the risks to the industry both on a short and long term. We looked at tools and approaches, both on the liability and asset sides, to address this emerging risk. Evidences have shown, not only the need to incorporate climate risks is pressing, as an industry, we shall recognize the responsibilities to lead the evolution. This session aims to put everything together and explore progress on company's enterprise risk management (ERM) process to incorporate climate risks and enterprises' attempt to provide sustainability information to audiences in need. We will discuss the latest development in international standard on sustainability disclosure. We will diagnose the challenges on implementation and effort to resolve them. We will compare the requirements and latest developments across different jurisdictions and possible cross learning among them. To conclude, we will land on what opportunities are available to the actuarial community! At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Discover requirements on sustainability reporting standards across different jurisdictions - Appreciate the challenges and progress to integrate climate risks in company's ERM approaches - Comprehend actuaries' opportunities and responsibilities to contribute

Description: This session examines the strategic advantages of offshore reinsurance in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two leading global hubs for alternative risk transfer. We will explore the regulatory landscape, capital efficiency benefits, and key structural considerations for setting up reinsurance entities in these jurisdictions.

Description: In the U.S., the insurance industry is regulated by the individual states. Learn more about the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which reviews and proposes model laws and assesses emerging issues.

Description: Are the choices we make the same in certain versus uncertain situations? What pushes our choices in one direction or another? In this session, join our discussion on the elements that make up consumer choice architecture, how they interact with risk appetite and how to intervene in risk choices, using the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as a case study. Together, we will explore behavioral considerations in risk appetite from the individual consumer and public policy perspectives. The latter will include environmental, social and governance considerations, including the challenges of climate change in a divided political landscape with limited resources. We will cite and use program data to support behavioral assessments. Appetite as a function of both risk preference and risk perception will serve as a foundational premise for the presentation.

Description: Pre-eminent healthcare actuaries and policy experts present their pitch for how they'd fix US healthcare (whatever they think 'fix' means) if they were supreme policy maker for a day. No idea is too big, and no policy dream is too small! Each candidate will have only a short time to win the audience's approval and will need to survive a grilling after the pitch. The audience will vote on the winner, who will be crowned 'ImpAct Meeting Healthcare Policy Wonk' for 2024!

Description: This session will be centered around the roles and responsibilities of a valuation actuary. Learn the best practices of health actuaries, along with technical considerations and professionalism issues surrounding the calculation and reporting of health liabilities and reserves. This session will focus on key actuarial liability and reserve provisions, including Claims Unpaid and Premium Deficiency Reserves. In this session, explore new ideas about calculation methods and the importance of the underlying assumptions. You will also learn best practices and practical applications concerning reserve calculation discuss best practices regarding the preparation of an actuarial memorandum supporting a Health Annual Statement. This will include key considerations from the American Academy of Actuaries' Practice Note about documenting and supporting the actuarial calculations. The discussion will also present views and considerations from both the insurer's and the regulator's perspectives.

Description: Climate change will lead to an increase in the frequency and severity of many weather-related hazards. In turn, these hazards will impact health outcomes for individuals. Explore examples of this connection with a climate scientist, including how the increase in wildfire severity in the western U.S. is expected to drive a 40% increase in organic carbon aerosols by 2050 and howheat stress will impact vulnerable populations and workers in non-air-conditioned environments. Investigating these relationships will increase literacy on disproportionate impacts of climate change-related health outcomes. Presenters will illustrate the disproportionate impacts by geographically analyzing climate change signals and comparing them with socioeconomic data. Last but not least, you will learn about the evolution in both voluntary and required disclosures for payors and the landscape of why understanding climate risk is relevant for many payors.

Description: Since the Affordable Care Act implemented minimum loss ratio provisions for health plans, several states have passed or at least considered minimum loss ratio regulation for dental plans. While such regulations are intended to improve insurer efficiency and promote value to consumers, they can have unintended negative consequences if the unique characteristics of the dental insurance market are not considered. Learn about this hot topic, including loss ratio basics, recent legislative activity in the dental loss ratio space, how dental differs from medical, and why those differences are critical to account for when trying to regulate loss ratios in that market.