On automobile insurance ratemaking [PDF]
Suppose that an automobile insurance plan is characterized by a double classification. The risks are thus divided into classes, i = 1, 2, …, p (e.g. defined by use of car and age of operator), and groups j = 1, 2, …, q (e.g. defined by licence and by accidents during the last three years).
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Herding cats: Competitive underwriting of catastrophe‐exposed property risks ‐ A teaching case
Abstract Risk management is an important aspect of property insurance sales, underwriting, and rating that is covered lightly in standard texts or publishers' materials. This case is based on the risk management considerations of a fictitious insurer within an often competitive and always high‐stakes industry segment—the primary insurance market for ...
Faith R. Neale, Lorilee A. Medders
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Actuarial implications of prevented planting coverage
Abstract Within the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP), prevented planting (PP) coverage provides payments for pre‐planting costs associated with crops that ultimately cannot be planted due to adverse weather. PP indemnities, which are not considered production losses within the FCIP rating methodology, influence premium rates differently than ...
Dylan Turner +3 more
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Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations; Notice of Closing the Public Record [PDF]
Notice_Federal_Register_041894.pdf: 96 downloads, before Oct.
U.S. Government Printing Office
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A fair price to pay: Exploiting causal graphs for fairness in insurance
Abstract In many jurisdictions, insurance companies are prohibited from discriminating based on certain policyholder characteristics. Exclusion of prohibited variables from models prevents direct discrimination, but fails to address proxy discrimination, a phenomenon especially prevalent when powerful predictive algorithms are fed with an abundance of ...
Olivier Côté +2 more
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Rate-Making, Smoker Surcharge, and Insurer Risk Management Under the U.S. Affordable Care Act [PDF]
Rate-making — a vital component of insurance and risk management — can be creative and at times contentious because pricing is its central goal. In the United States, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits insurers in the non-group and small group markets
Roger Lee Mendoza
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Race and premium misrating in the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program
Abstract USDA farm support programs have an established history of racial discrimination. Today, the Federal Crop Insurance Program is among the largest and most important programs available to U.S. farmers. Previous research has documented systematic misrating of crop insurance premiums with sizable welfare implications.
Jim Teal, Andrew W. Stevens
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Ratemaking in a changing environment
AbstractIn pricing insurance contracts based on the individual policyholder’s aggregate losses for non-life insurers, the literature has mainly focused on using detailed information from policies and closed claims. However, the information on open claims can reflect shifts in the distribution of the expected claim payments better than closed claims ...
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Benchmarking and Regulation of Electricity Transmission and Distribution Utilities: Lessons from International Experience [PDF]
Since the early 1980's, many countries have implemented electricity sector reform, many of which have bundled generation, transmission, distribution and supply activities, and have introduced competition in generation and supply. An increasing number
Jamasb, Tooraj, Pollitt, Michael G.
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Market Allocation in the Health Insurance Industry and the McCarran- Ferguson Act [PDF]
30 p.This Article examines the scope of the McCarran-Ferguson Act under existing Supreme Court precedent and reviews the sparse case law addressing the MFA’s applicability to market allocation schemes in the insurance industry, including the Blue ...
Stutz, Randy
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