Dorweiler Prize

Dorweiler Prize

This award, commemorating the work of Paul Dorweiler, was subject to the same conditions as those specified for the Woodward-Fondiller Prize, except that the Dorweiler Prize was awarded each year to the best eligible Proceedings paper submitted by an Associate or Fellow who has attained his or her designation more than five years from submitting his or her paper.

Recipients of the Dorweiler Prize

2008
No Award

2007
No Award

2006
Gordon F. Diss and Richard E. Sherman
"Estimating the Workers Compensation Tail"

2005
Rodney E. Kreps,
"Riskiness Leverage Models"

2004
David L. Homer and David R. Clark,
"Insurance Applications of Bivariate Distributions"

2003
Gary G. Venter,
"Tails of Copulas"

2002
No Award

2001
Thomas J. Kozik and Aaron Michael Larson
"The N-Moment Insurance CAPM"
Stephen P. D'Arcy and Richard W. Gorvett
"Measuring the Interest Rate Sensitivity of Loss Reserves"

2000
No Award

1999
Gary Venter,
"Testing the Assumptions of Age-to-Age Factors"

1998
Rodney E. Kreps,
"Investment-Equivalent Reinsurance Pricing"

1997
Sholom Feldblum,
"Personal Automobile Premiums: An Asset Share Pricing Approach for Property-Casualty Insurance"
Glenn Meyers,
"The Competitive Market Equilibrium Risk Load Formula for Catastrophe Ratemaking"

1996
Clive L. Keatinge,
"Balancing Transaction Costs and Risk Load in Risk Sharing Arrangements"

1995
Roger M. Hayne,
"Extended Service Contracts"

1994
Daniel F. Gogol,
"An Actuarial Approach to Property Catastrophe Cover Rating"

1993
Michael G. Wacek,
"Review of Ronald Wiser's Paper `The Cost of Mixing Reinsurance' "

1992
John P. Robertson,
"The Computation of Aggregate Loss Distributions"

1991
No Award

1990
Glenn G. Meyers,
"An Analysis of the Capital Structure of an Insurance Company"

1989
Stephen J. Ludwig and Robert McAuley,
"A Nonparametric Approach to Evaluating Reinsurers' Relative Financial Strength"

1988
Richard H. Snader,
"Reserving Long­Term Medical Claims"

1987
Howard Mahler,
"Review of Glenn Meyer's Paper `An Analysis of Experience Rating' "
Ronald F. Wiser,
"The Cost of Mixing Reinsurance"

1986
Gary G. Venter,
"Classical Partial Credibility with Application to `Trend"

1985
James N. Stanard,
"A Simulation Test of Prediction Errors of Loss Reserve Estimation Techniques"

1984
No Award

1983
Stephen P. D'Arcy,
"Strategy for Property Liability Insurers in Inflationary Times"

1982
Robert W. Sturgis,
"Actuarial Valuation of Property/Casualty Insurance Companies"

1981
Michael A. Walters,
"Risk Classification Standards"

1980
C.K. Khury,
"Loss Reserves: Performance Standards"
Richard G. Woll,
"A Study of Risk Assessment Using Massachusetts Data"

1979
No Award

1978
James R. Berquist and Richard E. Sherman,
"Loss Reserve Adequacy Testing: A Comprehensive Systematic Approach"

1977
No Award

1976
No Award

1975
Frank Harwayne,
"Review of David Skurnick's Paper, `The California Table L'"

1974
Jeffrey T. Lange and Wayne H. Fisher,
"Loss Reserve Testing: A Report Year Approach"

1973
LeRoy Simon,
"Actuarial Applications in Catastrophe Reinsurance"
Ronald L. Bornhuetter and Ronald E. Ferguson,
"The Actuary and IBNR"

1972
No Award

1971
Charles C. Hewitt,
"Credibility for Severity"