Abstract There is a lack of publicly available information covering the practices insurers employ to manage their exposure reinsurance recapture risk. A working party was set-up shed light on different approaches use mitigate this complicated This report intended form part repository that market practitioners can refer and reflect as best practice evolves develops.

BACKGROUND This study aimed at describing pain-related health care resource use, direct costs, and productivity loss among patients suffering from fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). METHODS A cost-of-illness study with a sample of 57 adults having a diagnosis of FMS was conducted in the province of Quebec (Canada). Data regarding FMS-related direct costs and productivity loss from paid and unpaid w...

The main objective of this study is to estimate a part of road traffic injury costs including costs due to fatality and disability, which are related to lost social products. Lost output consists of costs, which are related to losses of national product or lost-income in death, hospitalization or physical disabilities. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) has been used as...