Health and Health Insurance
Avian (Bird) Flu
Avian Flu Update with Underwriting and Business Continuity Considerations 
A January 25, 2006 update of the avian (bird) flu information recently added to MARC’s Life Underwriting Manual, with some thoughts on business continuity planning.
Pandemic Risk and the Avian Flu: Why All the Fuss over Avian Flu?
Presented by Tom Edwalds, FSA, ACA, at the Chicago Actuarial Association workshops meeting on March 13, 2007
Critical Illness
Critical Illness Cover – A Time for Review
Written in 1998 by Martin Werth and Peter Mannion of Munich Re’s UK Life Branch
Critical Illness Insurance
Published in 2001 by Munich Re, this brochure presents comprehensive product information on CI insurance, describes recent developments, and presents a real fraud case from South Africa.
The Marketing of Critical Illness Insurance
Published in May 2000 by the Munich Reinsurance Company
Disability Insurance
Disability Reinsurance Marketplace: Capacity vs Demand
Presented by Andronico Castillo at ReFocus 2007
The International Situation of Disability Insurance
Published in 1998 by the Munich Reinsurance Company
Mortality and DI/LTC Products
Presented by Tom Edwalds, FSA, ACAS, MAAA, at MARC’s 2004 DI/LTC Conference
Long Term Care
A Descriptive Analysis of Patterns of Informal and Formal Caregiving among Privately Insured and Non-Privately Insured Disabled Elders Living in the Community (April 1999) (off site)
Written by LifePlans, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Munich American) and The Center for Health and Long-Term Care Research, this paper is available on the Web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Long Term Care Insurance: Market Trends
Prepared for MARC’s April 2006 Disability Income and Long-Term Care Customer Conference by Marc A. Cohen, Ph.D., President of LifePlans, Inc.
Mortality and DI/LTC Products
Presented by Tom Edwalds, FSA, ACAS, MAAA, at MARC’s 2004 DI/LTC Conference
Other
Colon Cancer Screening
By Gina C. Guzman, MD, March 2005
Munich Re’s Medletter
This series of publications is geared to advanced risk underwriters and claims assessors and insurance medical offices. Risk underwriters in Life and Health insurance nowadays work in an environment that is characterized by rapidly increasing knowledge and constantly changing diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in all areas of medicine. In each issue, Medletter deals with a selected medical topic related to life, disability and health insurance in a concise form.
See also:
Geological and Epidemiological Events
Surveys
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