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Issue: January, 2010Language: 日本語
Summary: 高齢者の本格的な危険選択における今後の課題の一つは、認知障害などに対する選択の方法です。ここでは今後のへの参考として、日本国内ですでに実施されている取り組みを紹介しています。また、長引く景気低迷と雇用状況の変化の中、労働災害の動向の変化について触れています。
(In this article of this issue, we look at the challenge of underwriting Long-Term Care (LTC) products in the Japanese context. Also, changes in industrial accident trend under long recession and instability of employment in Japan.)
Issue: June, 2008Language: 日本語
Summary: ボラティリティ… どのように対応していますか?
GenReの財物任意再保険部門では、エクセス方式の任意再保険によりボラティリティをコントロールするお手伝いをさせていただきます。 この記事では、そのメリットについて具体的に述べています。
(Gen Re's facultative non-proportional product is a tool to help our clients manage the volatility in their portfolio. This flyer discusses its benefits.)
Issue: August, 2004Language: 日本語
Authors:
Robert Pokorski,
Thomas Ashley,
Dirk Nieder,
Ulrich Pasdika,
Philip Velazquez
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights features a discussion on Elderly Risks. Topics discussed are GREAT Risk Assessment in the Elderly, Private Long Term Care Protection, Products in the Elderly Market, and Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly.
Issue: May, 2004Language: 日本語
Authors:
San-Marie Crause,
Charles Meintel
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights features a discussion on Terrorism. Topics discussed are Pricing and Underwriting for Concentration of Risk Due to Terrorism, Need for Contingency Loads in Pricing LTD, Including Terrorism Risk, Terrorism in the Australian Risk Insurance Market and the Impact of War, Riot and Terrorism Risk on Group Life, Health and Disability Business.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: February, 2004Language: 日本語
Authors:
San-Marie Crause,
Libby Zimmerman,
Karsten Kroll
Summary: This is the second of a two-part series on group insurance. Featured in this issue are articles on group life pricing and underwriting, group dread disease, principles of group insurance, management of catastrophic health claims, and long term care underwriting practices. This issue also marks the beginning of an Inside Gen Re LifeHealth section that highlights developments of special interest to Gen Re clients, such as new manuals, guidelines, surveys, publications, client seminars, and industry activities. (Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: November, 2003Language: 日本語
Authors:
San-Marie Crause,
Ralph Price
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® is the first of a two-part series on group insurance, with contributing authors from Gen Re offices worldwide. The lead article discusses an experience rating model for pricing group life insurance, including an overview of technical and practical considerations. A related article addresses experience rating for long term disability pricing. Also featured are discussions of the principles of group insurance, trends in group heath insurance in the United States, and management of income benefit claims. (Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: August, 2003Language: 日本語
Authors:
Thomas Hartlett,
Thomas Ashley,
Joe Atamaniuk,
Ross Campbell,
Therese Droste,
Sabine Fischer-Hamm,
Tony Forte,
Stephen Rowley,
Peter Sauer
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® focuses on GeneralCologne Re electronic technologies that help our clients make rapid, accurate and consistent underwriting decisions. The lead article discusses COMPASS, a product designed to provide immediate underwriting decisions on life, income protection, accident, long term care, and dread disease applications. Another highlights FacWorld, a service that enables insurers to submit cases to GeneralCologne Re via the Internet and access a host of useful data sources. Also featured are discussions of our electronic underwriting manuals for life, critical illness, long term care, and disability income rider products.
Issue: May, 2003Language: 日本語
Authors:
Traci Lilly,
Robert Pokorski,
Ian Cox,
Irene Ng,
Dave Nicholas,
Ulrich Pasdika
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® features a discussion on Longevity. Topics discussed are Longevity and Mortality Tables: An Actuarial Perspective; Underwriting Impaired Annuities; Stochastic Analysis of Mortality Risk of Second-to-Die Life Products; Underwriting the Elderly: An Asian Perspective; Society of Actuaries Long Term Care Experience Intercompany Study 1984-1999; and Pricing
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: February, 2003Language: 日本語
Authors:
Sharon Coetzee,
Jutta Eich,
Neal Jones,
Linda Winterbottom
Summary: This is the first issue of Risk Insights® that is totally devoted to claims. Topics include life insurance fraud, claims management in developing countries and three articles on managing disability claims.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: November, 2002Language: 日本語
Authors:
Thomas Ashley,
Eugene Dean,
Dave Nicholas,
Dirk Nieder,
Stephen Rowley,
Peter Sauer,
Andres Webersinke
Summary: Vol. 6, No. 4 This issue of Risk Insights® features a discussion on Financial Underwriting. Topics discussed are Large Case Underwriting, A UK Perspective, Country-Specific Needs for Financial Underwriting, A Japanese perspective and ASEAN Perspective, Financial Underwriting in the U.S., Current Practices and Challenges of Financial Analysis in the Disability Income Market, Financial Underwriting for Disability Income Insurance, Does Long Term Care need Financial Underwriting, and GeneralCologne RE Announces Major Update of North American Life Underwriting Manual.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: August, 2002Language: 日本語
Authors:
Robert Pokorski,
Scott Reid,
Ross Campbell,
Andy Perkins
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® features a discussion on Long Term Care Insurance. Topics discussed are the status of the U.S. long term care market, GeneralCologne Re's Internet-Based Long Term Care Manual, Long Term Care in the U.K., Indemnity Long Term Care Insurance and Survival after Diagnosis of Dementia.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: May, 2002Language: 日本語
Authors:
Karsten Kroll,
Siu Yin Liu
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® is the second of a two-part series on critical illness (dread disease) insurance. The articles included in this issue discuss pricing for trends in accelerated dread diseasae insurance, trends in UK critical illness experience, simplified underwriting in dread disease and dread disease insurance in Asia.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: February, 2002Language: 日本語
Authors:
Karsten Kroll,
Siu Yin Liu
Summary: This issue of Risk Insights® is the first of a two-part series on critical illness (dread disease) insurance. The issue focuses on product variety in different markets, including a detailed discussion of female dread disease products. Also addressed is one of the principal concerns of those responsible for product development -- updating event definitions in response to medical advanced that permit diagnosis at earlier stages of disease.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: November, 2001Language: 日本語
Author:
David Wesley
Summary: This issue features a discussion insurance for elderly lives. The articles included in this issue are Detection and Significance of Frailty in Elderly Insurance Applicants, Functional Assessment in Underwriting the Elderly, Annuities for Impaired Elderly Lives, Underwriting Impaired Annuities, Differentiating Age-Related Memory Loss from Early Dementia, and Primary Cutaneous Melanoma.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)
Issue: May, 2001Language: 日本語
Authors:
Tom Hinrichs,
Charles Meintel,
Jane Dorter,
Hans Vicente
Summary: This is the second of a two-part series on disability income insurance, with emphasis on underwriting and pricing. The articles included in this issue are Dangers of Using International Experience for Pricing, U.S. Long Term Disability Pricing and Profitability, Looking Beyond the Calculations for Better Disability Risk Selection, Underwriting and Claims considerations for Home-Based Workers, Underwriting Substandard Disability Insurance, Underwriting Income Protection Benefits, Individual Long Term Care as Part of the Individual Disability Insurance Continuum, Effective Disability Claims Underwriting, and Case Management-Transferring the Skills to Claims Management.
(Note - This Japanese version is the translation of selected articles from the English original. Some of the articles described in this summary may not be included.)