November/December 2017

By Michael G. Malloy
The boom in both commercial and recreational drone use in recent years has raised questions regarding how insurers treat the rapidly growing technology.

By Jason Sears
I am fully aware of the irony of writing an article about work-life balance when I have three children under the age of 4.

By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
In insurance, moral hazard is the idea that a party that is protected from risk will behave differently than they would if they lacked that protection.

By John Stokesbury
The other day at the gym, there was this guy wearing a T-shirt that read, “And planks don’t like you either.”

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 Warren Manners

By Josh Feldman
During the dog days of summer, someone saw me struggling while running in the excessive heat and humidity that frequently blankets the Midwest, and asked me why I bother running during the hottest months of the year.

By Sam Gutterman
What’s going on with fertility and mortality, the fundamental building blocks of demography, the endpoints of life?

By Eric P. Harding
Just before this issue went to press, my kids had their yearly health physicals.

Letters submitted to Contingencies regarding the July/August 2018 issue and other topics.

By Deborah Rosenberg
A fable is best described as a narrative that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson.

By Joe Allbright, Yair Babad, Doyin Famodu, Carl Ghiselli, Roseanne Harris, Walter Marsh, Susan Mateja, Bode Olajumoke, Muyiwa Tegbe
Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of articles from the Health Practice International Committee on ideas from foreign models of health care that may assist the United States in finding cost-effective ways to deliver high-quality health care in an equitable and sustainable way. 

By Warren Manners