11:20 AM
Honor Roll: This Week's Top Insurance Blogs (July 5-11)
Our favorite insurance technology-related blog posts from around the Web (July 5-11, 2009): Who Says There Are No Actuaries In Baseball?
Actuarial Outpost isn't a blog but more of a message board site. In this entry, poster discuss Wednesday's New York Times article on Major League Baseball team training staffs' emerging use of (pseudo?) actuarial science. One commenter writes, "The potential for junk science is very high here." ---
Celent's Nicolas Michellod touches on a Bloomberg article on European insurers' implementation of drastic cost cutting measures. "Personnel and information technology are certainly the most important expense factors in the insurance industry but it seems that insurers have understood that technology can be an enabler to reduce costs and not only an important cost position in their profit and loss account," he writes. ---
InsureBlog's Henry Stern interviews Ken Smith, director of health insurance for Assurity Life Insurance Company. The Q&A focuses on critical illness (CI) policies. ---