Posted on October 28, 2009 by WorkCompEdge Blog Editor
by Kory Wells, WorkCompEdge Blog Editor
Actuarial consultants and analysts outnumber the software staff here at SIGMA Actuarial and Specific Software, so I’m not looking for trouble – just stating personal experience – when I say that actuaries speak a language the rest of us don’t. But you probably knew that. Terms like IBNR, loss development, [...]
Filed under: Actuarial and Risk Management Issues, Books, Free Stuff | Tagged: actuarial book, actuarial definitions, actuarial resource, working with actuary | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 7, 2009 by WorkCompEdge Blog Editor
by Kory Wells, WorkCompEdge Blog Editor
As a follow-up to Michelle Bradley’s recent blog article “A 2009 Collateral Perspective,” we’ve decided to conduct a survey of professionals currently involved in collateral issues related to self-funded workers compensation liabilities.
We invite insurance brokers, risk management consultants, and risk management staff of self-funded concerns to participate in the survey, [...]
Filed under: Actuarial and Risk Management Issues | Tagged: bond requirements, collateral, financial ratings, self-insureds | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 9, 2009 by WorkCompEdge Blog Editor
by Michelle Bradley, SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group
Interested in collateral issues? Don’t miss our collateral survey.
In October 2006, Lloyd Kelly and I authored a paper titled “Reducing Collateral Uncertainty: A Primer for Negotiations” that was published in Risk Financing Perspectives for the International Risk Management Institute. We expanded the paper in 2008 and published it as [...]
Filed under: Actuarial and Risk Management Issues | Tagged: bond requirements, collateral, financial ratings, Massachusetts, negotiations, self-insureds | 2 Comments »