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Medical Selection of Life Risks

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Editors:
  1. R. D. C. Brackenridge

    1. London, UK

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  2. W. John Elder

    1. Empire General Life Assurance Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas and Life Reassurance Corporation of America, Stanford, USA

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xvii-xvii
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    2. A Historical Survey of the Development of Life Assurance

      • R D C Brackenridge, Arthur E Brown
      Pages 1-15

    3. Types of Life and Health Insurance Policies

      • Peter C Maynard
      Pages 17-23

    4. Principles of Risk Selection and Classification

      • Harry A Woodman
      Pages 25-35

    5. The Application of Life Table Methodology to Risk Appraisal

      • Richard B Singer
      Pages 37-60

    6. The Rating of Substandard Lives

      • Michael W Kita
      Pages 61-88

    7. Underwriting Genetic Diseases

      • J Alexander Lowden
      Pages 89-102

    8. Underwriting Older Ages

      • Linda S Goodwin, Paul E Hankwitz, Martin Engman
      Pages 103-121

    9. Underwriting Younger Ages

      • Patrick D Snow
      Pages 123-139

    10. Disability

      • Paul R Bell
      Pages 141-153

    11. Long-Term Care Underwriting

      • Daniel C Elliott, Emilio Rubi
      Pages 155-168

    12. Impaired Lives Annuities

      • W Nicholas Anderton, Geoffrey H Robb
      Pages 169-171

    13. Structured Settlements

      • James A Ryan Jr, Roger F Harbin
      Pages 173-180

    14. Application Processing

      • Gary Bundock
      Pages 181-185

    15. Life Underwriting and Information Technology

      • Richard E Braun, Arthur W Detore
      Pages 187-197

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. The Concept of Health and Disease

      • R D C Brackenridge
      Pages 201-212

    3. The Medical Examination

      • R D C Brackenridge, Richard S Croxson
      Pages 213-232

    4. Drawing Conclusions from Test Results

      • Patricia Daniel, Michael W Kita
      Pages 233-248
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About this book

Medical Selection of Life Risks has long been recognised as the reference book on insurance medicine. The fourth edition provides a comprehensive guide to life expectancy for underwriters and clinicians involved in the life insurance industry. Extensively revised and expanded the 4th edition of Medical Selection of Life Risks reflects developments in life and healthcare insurance as well as medicine. There are completely new chapters: on the underwriting of genetic diseases, disability underwriting, impaired lives annuities, musculoskeletal and soft tissue disorders. Several major chapters have been completely re-written, including respiratory, ischemic and congenital heart diseases and oncology. Part I - deals with the principles of life and disability insurance and the logistics of life underwriting. Part II - is devoted to a systematic clinical appraisal of underwriting problems, mainly relating to life insurance but also, where appropriate, to disability, critical illness and long term care insurance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London, UK

    R. D. C. Brackenridge

  • Empire General Life Assurance Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas and Life Reassurance Corporation of America, Stanford, USA

    W. John Elder

About the editors

R.D.C. BRACKENRIDGE served as a medical officer in the RAF, 1942-46 after which he was a Senior Medical Registrar 1949-53. He then became a Consulting Medical Officer to Mercantile and General Re 1959 (recently Swiss Re Life & Health). He was President of the Assurance Medical Society in 1977 and an honorary member of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine in 1995.
W. JOHN ELDER served in the medical branch of the RAF, 1955-71. He has been a Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Director of both Cologne Life Reinsurance Company, Connecticut, USA and Transamerica Accidental Life, California, USA retiring in 1995. He was editor of the Journal of Insurance Medicine 1984-91 and President of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America (ALIMDA) 1990-91, currently consults in insurance medicine.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medical Selection of Life Risks

  • Editors: R. D. C. Brackenridge, W. John Elder

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14499-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69523-4Published: 29 September 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-14501-0Published: 01 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14499-0Published: 30 September 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 1010

  • Topics: Public Health

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