In recent years, mental health claims have become an increasingly prominent cost driver in the group benefits market. Paul Kennedy, FCIA and Laura Pratt join us to discuss why this has happened, and what strategies employers and group benefits providers can use to mitigate the impact.
Report authors Sherry Feng, Anh Tu Le, ACIA, and Adam Peleshok, FCIA, join us to discuss their research paper on accident benefit long-term disability claims, the first update on this topic published by the CIA in over 25 years.
Get the straight dope with host Chris Fievoli, FCIA, and author Lloyd Milani, FCIA, as they discuss the impacts of cannabis legalization on the Canadian insurance industry. Learn about trends in usage, the impact on addiction and mortality, and the reliability of soft data in assessing this new risk.
Chris Piper, FCIA, and Chair of the project oversight group for the new Canadian Individual Critical Illness Insurance Morbidity Experience Study, discusses improvements to the study, including better readability and credibility compared to prior versions.
Denis Garand, one of the project leads for the recent Group Long-term Disability Termination Study, discusses new variables for LTD termination and how predictive analytics extended the results of the study. (in French)
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