Description: This article summarizes presentations given at the 1998 Bowles Symposium concerning the use of genetic testing in underwriting life insurance and the medical, legal and ethical issues that arise.

Description: Book review of Life Company Underwriting, Life Office Management Association, which covers underwriting practice and many related administrative issues.

Description: This article describes an interesting decision entered by the Florida Supreme Court. It was held that an insurance company’s failure to investigate circumstances relating to the issuance of a life insurance policy- where the company received notice of the beneficiary’s murderous intentions- constituted a tort under Florida law for damages arising from the beneficiary’s attempt to murder the insured in order to collect the benefits.

Description: Discusses the rapidly growing AIDS epidemic and its impact on traditional underwriting principles for life insurance and health insurance.