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1. A Top-Down Approach to Understanding Uncertainty in Loss Ratio Estimation
   In this paper we define a specific measure of error in the estimation of loss ratios; specifically, we focus on the discrepancy between the original estimate of the loss ratio and the ultimate value of the loss ratio...
2. Actuarial Implications of Texas Tort Reform
   Tort reforms are generally difficult to evaluate because historical claim loss data are rarely available in a format to facilitate analysis and because the tort reform itself may change plaintiff's behavior in a way that renders historical data unpredictive of the future...
3. Case of the Medical Malpractice Crisis: A Classic Who Dunnit, The
   We actuaries, detectives of the first order, are presented with a most intriguing case: numerous, grisly bodies of dead insurance companies and physicians’ practices in public view, various signs of intrigue and foul play abound, suspects galore, an abundance of alibis, and an endless supply of opinions on how the culprit(s) must repay their debt to society...
4. Claims-Made Reserving Professional Liability and Errors and Omissions
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5. Commercial Lines Pricing: Underwriting and Marketing Considerations
   LOB-Commercial Multiple Peril...
6. Concepts and Trends in Medical Malpractice
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7. Cost of compensation culture, The
   This paper considers what is “Compensation Culture”...
8. Current Perspective on Medical Professional Liability Insurance
   Recent developments in the medical professional liability insurance marketplace would suggest that the crisis in this line of insurance is over...
9. D&O Reinsurance Pricing - A Financial Market Approach
   The large number of high severity D&O losses of the past few years has affected the D&O market place creating a serious capacity crunch...
10. Death, Disability and Retirement Coverage: Pricing the "Free" Claims-Made Tail
    Introduced primarily as a marketing tool, free tail coverage is becoming a standard feature of claims-made insurance policies and is increasingly being used for medical malpractice and other forms of professional liability exposures...
11. Development of an Inflation Sensitive Exposure Base for Hospital Professional Liability Insurance
    The initial idea for the topic of this paper actually began in the mid-seventies, the period of the "malpractice crisis"...
12. Development of an Inflation Sensitive Exposure Base for Hospital Professional Liability Insurance [Review]
    I am especially sympathetic to the search for the "Holy Grail" which will prevent the next malpractice crisis...
13. Drawing Inferences From Medical Malpractice Closed Claim Studies
    LOB-Medical Malpractice...
14. Dynamic Approach to Modeling Free Tail Coverage; A
    This paper presents two approaches to estimating free tail coverage unearned premium reserves...
15. Empirical Measure of Reserve Level Uncertainty Relative to Discounting and Financial Solvency for a Monoline Medical Professional Liability Insurer
    A monoline medical professional liability insurer faces an unusual degree of solvency risk related to the adequacy of its loss and loss adjustment expense reserves...
16. Empirical Measure of Reserve Level Uncertainty Relative to Discounting and Financial Solvency for a Monoline Medical Professional Liability Insurer [Review]
    The topic of this paper is particularly timely given the attention currently being given to discounting by the GAO and IRS...
17. Estimating Pure Premium by Layer--An Approach [Discussion]
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18. Estimating Pure Premium by Layer—An Approach
    This paper presents an approach to the estimation of loss costs by layer of insurance coverage...
19. Evidence Is In, The
    Interstate data unequivocally support the premise that caps on noneconomic damages are an effective means of reducing malpractice costs...
20. Experience Rating in Medical Professional Liability Insurance: Comment
    Ex/Ind...
21. Hospital Self-Insurance Funding: A Monte Carlo Approach
    The common theme which appears to have evolved in the actuarial methodology for determining self-insurance funding contributions can be described in basic terms as a two-step process: (a) estimating expected retained losses for the self-insured entity and (b) estimating a safety margin or risk loading to maintain funding at a selected high level of confidence...
22. Identifying and Pricing Managed Care Errors and Omissions Exposures
    In response to increasing healthcare costs and threats from the public sector to play a larger role in the delivery of healthcare products...
23. Liabilities for Extended Reporting Endorsement Guarantees Under Claims-Made Policies
    This paper discusses the need to provide specific liabilities in certain situations where the writer of claims-made policies has guaranteed that an extended reporting endorsement will be available to the claims-made insured at some future date...
24. Liability Claim Evaluation
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25. Liability IBNR Reserves
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