by Al J. Rhodes, ACAS, MAAA, President & Senior Actuary | L. Michelle Bradley, ACAS, MAAA, ARM, CERA, Consulting Actuary | Enoch Starnes, CCI, Actuarial Analyst | Apr 2, 2020 | Analytical Issues, Sales
Case 1: Considerations for Companies with Temporarily Closed or Limited Operations With the insurance landscape evolving at a rapid pace, new risk-related situations, obstacles, and objectives have begun to emerge. SIGMA has received numerous questions regarding how...
by Tony King | Mar 23, 2020 | Analytical Issues, Loss Control
An actuarial reserve analysis examines a program’s loss-sensitive policy years in order to calculate a required reserve estimate for all claims incurred as of the evaluation date. This reserve estimate is a key component in determining collateral for self-insured and...
by Lori Ussery | Feb 20, 2020 | Analytical Issues
A recent article written by SIGMA’s Michelle Bradley and Lori Ussery and published in Captive International discussed the importance of using analytics to leverage a company’s position with insurers and create new strategies for dealing with a hardening...
by Al Rhodes, ACAS, MAAA | Nov 4, 2019 | Analytical Issues, Sales
There are many reasons an actuary may be engaged to complete an actuarial report, everything from due diligence to regulatory requirements. These engagements commonly involve review work which require the engaged actuary to review another actuary’s report for a large...
by Michelle Bradley, ACAS, MAAA, ARM, CERA | Sep 25, 2017 | Analytical Issues, Training Resources
When a company begins the due diligence process for acquiring another entity, several actuarial factors must be considered. For risk related specifically to property and casualty, the main question needing to be answered pertains to the actual liabilities being...
by Timothy L. Coomer, Ph.D. | Aug 15, 2017 | Analytical Issues, Sales
The types of calls I receive on analytics typically fall into two categories. One is from producers who lost an account because the competition offered an analytics-based decision approach. As a result, they want to know how to go up against this type of broker in the...
