Council Members in this Study Group: 384
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Assistant Vice President
AON CONSULTING & INSURANCE SERVICES ![]()
Michael Berman is the Assistant Vice President at Aon Consulting. He is an experienced group health actuary with over 10 years of broad insurance and consulting experience. Mr. Berman has extensive expertise in the areas of pharmacy, medical, and disability products. His consulting experience has been...
Robert Cohen, MHSAManaging General Partner
Alliance Benefits & Compensation, LLC ![]()
Robert Cohen is the Founder and Managing General Partner of Alliance Benefits & Compensation, LLC, a employee benefits services firm in Washington, DC. Mr. Cohen has over 20 years of experience as a human resources and employee benefits professional in the mid-Atlantic region. He serves on the board...
President and Chief Executive Officer
InGenuity Group ![]()
James Ward is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingenuity Group, an independent Commercial Insurance Agency, Employee Benefits, and Risk Management firm. He is a Licensed Insurance Counselor (LIC), General Agent & Broker for Small & Middle Market clients. Mr. Ward is an active Member of...
Bilyana SavicPresident
Insurance Insights ![]()
Bilyana Savic is the President of Insurance Insights. She has over 16 years of experience in product development, project management, distribution growth, and market analysis for major medical, life, long term care, medicare supplement, disability, accident and specified disease. Bilyana has worked...
Daniel BucklePrincipal
Employee Benefit Resources of South Texas ![]()
Daniel Buckle is the Principal of Employee Benefit Resources of South Texas, an employee benefit consulting firm, where he has worked since July 2004. He has over 22 years of experience in designing health, dental, life, accident and disability programs for employers of all sizes. As an independent...
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Pandemic Risk for Health Insurers, Reinsurers, and Self-Funded Plans
May 1, 2009
FACTBOX: Economic costs of a flu pandemic | www.reuters.com
Actuarial rate projections for health plans generally do not consider the risk of an epidemic or pandemic. A pandemic could easily increase health insurer MLR's or loss ratios by 10%. The impact on health reinsurance loss ratios would generally be leveraged, i.e. significantly greater....
June 11, 2008
Corporate Bond Risk Jumps to 2-Month High on Inflation Concern | www.bloomberg.com
Uncertainty breeds panic among people who seek to quantify risk, whether they do so judgmentally or with complex, elaborate "predictive risk models." There is a dislocation taking place among the world's economies and the markets are simply struggling to quantify the meaning of the structural...
Understanding the Potential Impact of Future Trends in the Life Insurance Industry
December 6, 2007
Global Expansion in Life Insurance | www.eds.com
The article is interesting because is evaluating the engines behind the globalization trend in life insurance insdustry. In particular, the article examines two important demographic trends: (1) the ageing of the world's population and (2) the increase in life expectancyof...
Medical Tourism Has Price Transparency - The United States Has Opaque Pricing
September 7, 2007
Michael Berman, Assistant Vice President, AON CONSULTING & INSURANCE SERVICES
American's Gamble for Bargain Surgery Abroad | www.medpagetoday.com
The United States has very limited price transparency for medical providers and facilities. The lack of price transparency artificially raises costs in the United States because there is very little price competition for services. This is true even in areas where there is excess capacity.
Transparency to the Client is Paramount
July 24, 2007
Michael Berman, Assistant Vice President, AON CONSULTING & INSURANCE SERVICES
Insurance brokers reconsider taking insurer commissions | www.marketwatch.com
Contingent commissions, if not disclosed, can result in brokerage clients not knowing how much they are paying for the services they receive from their risk brokers. A commission should be viewed as just an alternative to fee-based consulting. In theory the amount of commissions received should...
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Life & Health Insurance Experts | 1515 |
| Employee Benefits Consultants | 154 |
| Independent Insurance Consultants | 440 |
| Employee Benefits Experts | 353 |
| Actuaries | 222 |
| Life & Health Actuarial Consultants | 93 |
| Actuarial Consultants | 178 |