CORP To Post Accepted Papers on Web

The CAS Committee on Review of Papers has implemented a quarterly update to the CAS Web Site featuring papers recently accepted by CORP. CORP aims to increase the accessibility of actuarial literature with the implementation of the update. Electronic versions of most of the accepted papers are located on the CAS Web Site at http://www.casact.org/pubs/corponweb/papers.htm and are currently being edited by the CAS Editorial Committee for inclusion in the Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

The listing below includes authors who have presented papers at the 1999 CAS Spring Meeting and authors who have been invited to present their papers at the 1999 CAS Annual Meeting. The CAS appreciates the authors' contributions to actuarial literature.

As of July 14, 1999, CORP has accepted the following papers:

1. "California Workers Compensation Benefit Utilization: A Study of Changes in Frequency and Severity in Response to Changes in Statutory Workers Compensation" by Ward M. Brooks.

2. "Dirty Words: Interpreting and Using EPA Data in Actuarial Analysis of an Insurer's Superfund-Related Claim Costs" by Steven J. Finkelstein.

3. "Levels of Determinism in Workers Compensation Reinsurance Commutations" by Gary Blumsohn.*

4. "Modeling Losses with the Mixed Exponential Distribution" by Clive L. Keatinge.

5. A Systematic Relationship Between Minimum Bias Methods and Generalized Linear Models" by Stephen J. Mildenhall.*

6. Discussion of a Discussion of "Surplus-Concepts, Measures of Return, and Determination" by David L. Ruhm and Carleton R. Grose.*

7. "The 1998 Table of Insurance" by William R. Gillam.

8. "Workers Compensation Reserve Uncertainty" by Douglas Hodes, Sholom Feldblum, and Gary Blumsohn.*

*presented in Spring 1999