By Jason Alvarez and Mark Troutman
Health care insurance programs require capital to support the risk assumed by the health plan.
Tradecraft
By Greg Frankowiak
When it comes to actuarial work (or analytics work in general), few parts of the process are as important as making sure that the data used is of good quality.
By Stephen A. Alpert
One of the more difficult judgments an actuary must make is being “reasonable.”
By Bradley J. Piper and Mary L. Gabe
Why maintaining a zero-dollar MA-PD premium plan is worth the effort
By Lenny Shteyman
Isn’t it amazing that online retailers seem to know so much about us?
By Bryce Chamberlain
Have you heard of Git? Github, maybe? Git was created by Linus Torvald in 2005 to support the development of Linux,[1] which in 2016 ran an estimated 67 percent of web servers. Android runs on Linux.
By Mark Troutman and Larry Jackson
Perhaps Musician Huey Lewis and his band The News were among the first to ask for a specialty drug to fit their specific situation in their song of the same name
By Steven F. Malerich
To improve accounting for insurance contracts, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has decided to eliminate retrospective DAC adjustments, but to require retrospective updates for traditional life and health insurance reserves.
By Mark R. Shapland
There’s a paradigm shift underway in benchmarking unpaid claims. Nearly every far-reaching decision any insurance entity makes—from pricing to capital needs and risk management—hinges in some way on projections of unpaid claims.
By D. Joeff Williams
My father was a civil engineer who loved to do carpentry as a hobby. As a kid, I had a chance to help him on some of his projects and to share in his enthusiasm for woodworking.