Description: This article enumerates many important considerations for a managing general underwriter(MGU) desiring to contract with an insurance carrier to issue and service provider excess of loss policies covering catastrophic medical risks assumed by accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Description: A discussion of the reasons behind the existence of offshore reinsurance companies in the Caribbean and the life styles of ex-pat actuaries working there.

Description: Munich American’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Statistical Research Committee of the Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force. The ordinary numbers are further subdivided into: recurring reinsurance1—conventional reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in the year in which it was reinsured portfolio reinsurance—reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in a year prior to the year in which it was reinsured, or financial reinsurance, and retrocession reinsurance—reinsurance not directly written by the ceding company. Complete survey results are available from the authors upon request. These results may also be obtained at Munich American’s Web site at www.marclife.com search Research.

Description: In North America, the proportion of elderly persons now in the population is about 13 percent and is expected to rise to 20 percent by the year 2030. Insurers face a new wave of insurance candidates over ages 65, 70 and 75 with risk assessment challenges in underwriting the health of old age risks.

Description: Munich American’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: This article discusses the causes of total coverage on a life exceeding the jumbo limit found in automatic reinsurance treaties. Steps being considered and taken to address this problem are also discussed.

Description: The author's asserts that when estimating life expectancy, care should be taken to account for how trends in mortality can change over time change over time and that by assuming they remain constant, one can underestimate life expectancy and therefore undervalue annuity products.

Description: This article presents an FAQ on protected cell companies. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: A listing of all the events at the ReFocus 2011 meeting.