Description: A physician discusses white matter lesions on the brain - their nature, causes, severity, importance, associated risks, and underwriting implications for long term care insurance.

Description: This article provides a summary of the 2016 Milliman LTC rate increase survey and additional commentary from our years of experience with rate increase filings.

Description: Updated Regulations Define Eligibility for Standard Mail Rates by Mitch Hisiger from News Direct, January 2006, Issue No. 52.

Description: Review of ideas and concepts presented at the Living to 100 symposium. The ideas include projections of future longevity, medical breakthroughs that may extend longevity and the potential benefits from slowing the aging process.

Description: Up until recent past, the artificial intelligence portion of data science was looked upon cautiously due to its history of booms and flops . In the latest stream of events, major improvements have taken place in this field and now deep learning, the new leading front for Artificial Intelligence, presents a promising prospect for overcoming problems of big data.

Description: A discussion of where insurance companies and their products fit in the retirement asset market and trends over the past few decades. Some historical data on the insurance companies' share of retirement assets is included.

Description: Revenue Procedure 2001-42 Rev. Proc. 2001-42, established a permanent avenue for companies to correct inadvertent modified endowment contracts, or MECs. This article discusses this new Procedure.

Description: Europe is in a state of financial flux. The ongoing effort to develop an integrated European economic community has led to sweeping changes in accounting regulations and pension systems. These changes will have profound implications for the competitive structure of the European life insurance market.

Description: Discussion of recent Society of Actuaries sponsored research.

Description: This article examines the impact of a changing smoking rate on population-level mortality improvement and the importance of taking this driver into account.