Description: A summary recap of the recent SOA Health Conference held in Dallas, TX in June of 2025. With the intentional use of AI to assist with the summary, this article gives a good overview of the recent conference with personal commentary from one of the attendees.

Description: Session 4C: The Impact of Medical Advancements on Disability and Group Life

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: In this webcast, the presenter will cover mental health in insurance products. Learn about the public’s increased interest in mental health and the ways insurers can meet this demand, how we can embed such offerings in insurance and how to successfully expand mental health coverage to those in need. The second speaker will cover how cancer and the simplified issue insurance market has evolved in Korea. In this session, the speaker will share the ease of selling / onboarding, thus allowing a greater penetration of products.

Description: Enjoy an in-depth walkthrough of the facets of the lab testing world in this webcast. The agenda will include a discussion on genetic testing, which focuses on its general background, current trends and tests in the pipeline, as well as a focus on the approaches to achieve savings in lab testing. Finally, expect to check out sample actuarial analyses that will be used to identify areas of focus in lab management. Join us and take a deeper look into lab work in the actuarial health industry.

Description: Discover a comparison of U.S. and international mandated leave programs which mandate employers to provide a minimum level of benefits to employees for qualifying leaves of absence, such as parental leave or medical leave.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executives will provide an overview of the health reinsurance market that explores existing reinsurance transactions reported under Schedule S, large claim research drawing insight from the latest five-year Merative Commercial MarketScan Research Database, stop-loss reinsurance options for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and other reinsurance applications being seen in the market.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executives provide perspective on topics to include cell and gene therapy, structured reinsurance, reinsurance demand for value based care arrangements, and how reinsurers view a variety of risk transfer opportunities.

Description: This report explores AI bias in insurance and health data, highlighting the ethical role of actuaries and offering cross-disciplinary guidance for fairer decision-making systems.

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to provide a practical set of changes to the incidence rate modifiers of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect recent industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends from 2005 through 2015. The goal is to have resulting 2005-2015 experience-based incidence modifiers in a workable format to facilitate its use.