Insurers scrutinize nanotechnology

Feds to scrutinize health disparities.

Federal Agencies scrutinize lung surgery.

Background: Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) remains problematic despite many new advanced diagnostic methods. A reliable and rapid diagnostic test, which could be performed in any standard pathology laboratory, would help to obtain definitive early diagnoses of TB. In the present study we describe a prospective evaluation for demonstrating Antigen (Ag) 85 complex in the sera from TB patients. Me...

Optimal investment for insurers

We consider a risk process modelled as a compound Poisson process. The ruin probability of this risk process is minimized by the choice of a suitable investment strategy for a capital market index. The optimal strategy is computed using the Bellman equation. We prove the existence of a smooth solution and a verification theorem, and give explicit solutions in some cases with exponential claim s...

Reimbursement Information from Specific Insurers

 Women at high risk for developing breast cancer.  Gene mutation carriers (BRCA 1 & 2)  1 degree relative of BRCA carrier, but untested  20-25% lifetime risk due to family history  Radiation to chest between ages 10-30 years  Women with a metastatic axillary node adenocarcinoma with an unknown primary.  Rare <1% breast cancers  Typically from ipsilateral breast and not identified on cli...

The Capital Structure of Insurers :

This paper develops and tests a theory of insurers' choice of the mix of equity and liabilities. The role of equity in insurance markets (and in our model) is to back insurers' promises to pay claims when there is aggregate uncertainty, or dependence among risks. Depending on the nature of this aggregate uncertainty, the equity held by rms in a competitive insurance market may increase with ris...