Read the latest issue of This Week—Membership Renewal Reminder; DSAC Releases Natural Experiments Paper; P/C, Life & Health Law Manuals Available; Webinar Examines ABCD Case Studies 

“A doctor and actuary walk into an emergency room…. It sounds like the beginning of a dark joke actuaries would appreciate, except that it became my reality for five days in a row.” In the latest Contingencies web exclusive, read how a recent trip to the emergency room found the author using his actuarial training to convince doctors to revisit their assumption setting. 

Check out the Academy’s new issue paper, “Natural Experiments,” which discusses an approach to establish causation that approximates the construction of a randomized controlled trial but has lower ethical, practical, and financial barriers. 

An Academy issue paper, Social Security and Immigration. Immigration is a crucial component to the trajectory of the financial condition of the Social Security system—this paper discusses how immigration affects the social insurance program.