Description: In May of 2006 the Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee of the SOA surveyed both reinsurers and direct companies about their practices with respect to making business decisions in the underwriting process. This article highlights the comparison of the results of the two surveys.

Description: The embattled life insurance industry in Australia needs to come to terms with a new environment of heightened claims volumes, unprecedented losses, changing distribution models and even reduced benefits. Like the mythological phoenix that spectacularly regenerates from its ashes every century, Australia’s life insurance industry needs something special to rise from its ashes. Claims management innovation promises to give the necessary impetus for a market that is desperate for some good news, whilst laying the foundation for a claims revolution worldwide.

Description: Summary of the results from the SOA Reinsurance Section's survey of individual and group life reinsurance business assumed in 2023.

Description: The article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. mortality trends, noting that despite a decrease in COVID-19 deaths due to better treatments and vaccinations, excess mortality persists, especially among younger adults due to accidental causes. It discusses the challenges of predicting future mortality trends, considering factors like medical advancements and societal changes. The article also highlights the potential of new medical technologies and AI to significantly improve health outcomes in the future. Overall, it underscores the complex interplay of various factors influencing mortality in the post-pandemic era.

Description: The first of two parts of a roundtable discussion, by conference call, on the state of life reinsurance today in North America.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: This article discusses the changes in the life reinsurance business over the last 45 years. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: The opening of the reinsurance market in Brazil is the foremost event of the last two decades in the Latin American insurance and reinsurance arena.

Description: Insurance companies significantly expanded their use of life reinsurance throughout the late '90s and early '00s. This has meant that volumes being ceded to the reinsurance market have continued to expand after a brief respite in 2001 through quota share opportunities with direct insurers keeping only a portion of their published retention.

Description: In October 2011, a research report was released jointly by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Research, the Smaller Insurance Company Section and the Reinsurance Section regarding the challenges encountered by smaller insurers in obtaining life reinsurance. This article summarizes the findings of that research report.