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2011
Voluntary Benefits, A Work in Progress
Jeff Schuh, Vice President and Senior Actuary
Best's Review, December 2011
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Claim Administration Issues Surrounding Accelerated Death Benefits
Eric Swanson, Director, Reinsurance Underwriting for Life, Accident and Specialty Reinsurance
Employee Benefit Plan Review, November 2011
Private Eyes, Public Websites
Charles Deragon, Director, Disability Claims, Group Reinsurance
Canadian Underwriter, October 2011
Million-Dollar Claims Grow More Frequent
Kathy Childs-Healy, Director, Marketing and Underwriting
Best's Review, August 2011
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Benefit Trends: Do your employee benefits still fit the needs of your groups?Anil Sanwal, Assistant Vice President, RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada
Best's Review, March 2011
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2010
Defying History
Tina Rostamo, Senior Marketing Underwriter
Best's Review, November, 2010
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Returning Sanity to Large Life Plans
Eric Swanson, Senior Marketing Underwriter
Best's Review, June 2010
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Untapped Market For Group Disability
Curt Zepeda, Vice President Group Disability, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance
Best's Review, February 2010
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2009
ING to transfer its U.S. reinsurance business to RGA Inc (pdf, 26 kb)
Press Release - October 16, 2009
New Options Arise from Competition (pdf, 91 kb)
Carol Muncil, Senior Underwriting Consultant, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance - September 2009. Copyright© A.M. Best Company, Inc. 2009. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission.
Benefit Maximums Trail Medical Inflation, but Plans are Divided on How to Respond
Jill Brown - Health Plan Week, AIS's Health Business Daily, May 5, 2009
Underwriting Risks During a Downturn (pdf, 93 kb)
Eric Swanson, Senior Marketing Underwriter, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance - May 2009. Copyright© A.M. Best Company, Inc. 2009. All Rights Reserved, Reprinted with Permission.
Underwriting Risks During a Downturn Audio Interview
BestDay Audio Interview with Eric Swanson, Senior Marketing Underwriter, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance on May 13, 2009
Using Data to Keep Risk in the Crosshairs
Ed McKinley - Insurance Networking News, April 1, 2009
Capital as it Affects Life Insurance Companies
BestDay Audio Interview with Dean Abbott, Chief Actuary, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance on March 18, 2009
Million-Dollar Claim Club
Maureen Glabman - Managed Care, March 2009
U.S. Layoffs May Decrease Life Reinsurance Volume (pdf, 65 kb)
Meg Green - BestWire February 13, 2009. Copyright© 2009 by A.M. Best Company, Inc.
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2008
Good News in the Fight Against AIDS (pdf, 393KB/1 page)
Brent Hoehne and Eric Swanson, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance
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Rethinking Portable Group Life Benefits (pdf, 393KB/ 1 page)
John Ghilardi and Carol Muncil, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance
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Just What the Doctor Ordered (pdf, 292KB/1 page)
Curt Zepeda, Vice President Group Disability, RGA U.S. Group Reinsurance
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