Life & Health

Life, health, and medical stop loss.

CAI practices in life and health as well as property and casualty, under the same Fellow. Reserve opinions, cash-flow testing, health plan reserving, and medical stop-loss pricing, where a lot is changing right now.

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Specific & Aggregate Pricing

Rates for specific and aggregate stop-loss coverage, built from the plan's own experience and current large-claim trend.

Large-Claim Trend

Frequency and severity of claims above the attachment point, with attention to high-cost drug therapies, cell and gene therapies, and specialty pharmacy.

Attachment Point Studies

Where a self-funded plan's retention should sit, given its size, its claims history, and its tolerance for a bad year.

Renewal & Laser Review

An independent look at renewal terms, lasers, and rate changes before the plan commits.

Captive & Pooled Stop Loss

Pricing and reserving for employer captives and stop-loss pools.

Stop-Loss Carrier Reserving

Unpaid claim reserves and premium deficiency testing for stop-loss writers.

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Statements of Actuarial Opinion

Statutory reserve opinions for life and health insurers, with the supporting memorandum.

Cash-Flow Testing & Asset Adequacy

Projected cash flows under a set of interest rate paths, and whether the assets hold up. More on the Economic Scenarios page.

Health Plan Reserving

IBNR for self-funded plans, and IBNR and premium deficiency reserves for health insurers.

Product Pricing

Rate development for life, annuity, long-term care, and health insurance products.

Experience Studies

Mortality, morbidity, lapse, and claim studies for ongoing valuations, with life expectancy assumptions revisited as the evidence changes.

Life & Health Reinsurance

Pricing, ceded reserves, and experience analysis for life and health reinsurance transactions.

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Self-Funded Employers & Administrators

Setting the retention, pricing the stop loss, and checking the renewal.

Health Plans & Stop-Loss Carriers

Reserves, rate adequacy, and the opinion that goes with them.

Life Insurers & Reinsurers

Reserve opinions, cash-flow testing, pricing, and experience studies.

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Scope

A short call to understand the question being asked.

Data

Claims experience, plan or policy terms, and the current rates. Nothing more than is needed.

Analysis

Modeling, comparison, and a draft to talk through together.

Report

A memo or report sized to the question, with the work behind it.

Questions

Reach out.

If you have a question about a stop-loss program, a reserve, or an opinion, send a note or call.