• Emerging risks in insurance: Antibiotic resistance

  By Tanya Hayward, Emma Hutchinson | 18 July 2019

  In the context of antibiotic resistance, de-linkage of profit and volume through the use of an insurance model has been proposed as a potential strategy to stimulate innovation and curb antibiotic resistance through the availability of novel antibiotics.

• Critical Point Episode 16: How pensions in America have changed (and should change again)

  By Kelly S. Coffing, Rebecca A. Sielman | 17 July 2019

  The American pension plan is in flux, but not for the first time in U.S. history; this episode discusses why it’s a turbulent time for retirement security and what the next generation of pension plans could – and should – look like.

• Medicare Supplement: Climbing a slippery slope?

  By Kenneth L. Clark | 17 July 2019

  What are the theoretical actuarial considerations and areas of opportunity in the Medicare Supplement business?

• Prevented planting: Midwest flooding carves out uncharted terrain for crop insurers

  By Carl X. Ashenbrenner | 16 July 2019

  How will rain and lingering flooding in the Midwest farm belt affect farmers’ choice of planting and insurers’ crop insurance losses?

• Monthly Benefit News and Developments, July 2019

  By Milliman Employee Benefits Research Group | 11 July 2019

  Monthly benefits news and developments in the United States.

• How blockchain technology will disrupt the PBM-payer-pharmacy relationship

  By Brian N. Anderson, Gregory Callahan, Michael DiPrima | 11 July 2019

  This article describes the origin of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), how claims are processed, and ways in which blockchain could disrupt the PBM marketplace.

• Life insurance capital regimes in Asia

  By Clement Bonnet, Brian Colgan, Farzana Ismail, Michael Daly, Sharon Huang, Philip Jackson, Joseph Kim, Atsushi Okawa, Wing F. Wong, Wen Yee Lee | 09 July 2019

  This report covers the capital regimes in 10 markets in Asia plus the 2018 International Capital Standard field test.

• Universal life and indexed universal life issues, 2018/2019 survey

  By Carl A. Friedrich, Susan J. Saip | 09 July 2019

  Twelfth annual survey addressing UL and IUL life insurance market issues.

• Pension Funding Index July 2019

  By Charles J. Clark, Zorast Wadia | 08 July 2019

  In June, the funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans increased by $1 billion as measured by the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index.

• EIOPA thematic review: Big Data Analytics in insurance

  By Matthew McIlvanna, Eamonn Phelan, Eoin O Baoighill | 08 July 2019

  This briefing note summarises EIOPA’s recent report on its thematic review of the uses of big data analytics in motor and health insurance.

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