Description: Discussion of the evolving role of reinsurance in driving business decisions for the direct side, with particular emphasis on underwriting and risk classification and the emphasis on automatic versus facultative business.

Description: This article reports on a session at an underwritering meeting in which the panel included an actuary, an underwriter and a marketer. Each presented his point of view about the status of the insurance business and the difficulties of increasing production.

Description: Feature article discussing the results of a 1994 reinsurance survey and how things have changed in today’s world.

Description: Discussion of the need for financial underwriting and some history on industry practices. Also includes a discussion of how communications should take place between the underwriter and financial advisor to the insurance applicant.

Description: Feature article discussing reinsurance administration issues.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about how reinsurers are adapting to market changes. Topics included: 1. How reinsurers are adapting to changes driving direct writers. 2. Is gIobalization of reinsurance having a major effect? 3. In what ways has the reinsurance industry changed over the years and in what ways has it not changed?

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting presents medical advances, common diseases and the resulting trends for the future on longevity and morbidity risk, underwriting trends and measuring the impacts of the changes. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.