Brackenridge's Medical Selection of Life Risks: Fifth Edition [Hardcover]

R. D. C. Brackenridge (Editor), Richard S. Croxson (Editor), B. Ross Mackenzie (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1403906769 | ISBN-13: 978-1403906762 | Publication Date: May 11, 2006 | Edition: 5th

Brackenridge's Medical Selection of Life Risks has long been recognized as the leading reference book on insurance medicine. The fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to life expectancy for underwriters and clinicians involved in the life insurance industry. Extensively revised and expanded the new edition reflects developments in life and healthcare insurance as well as medicine. There is expanded coverage of disability issues and full account is taken of new developments in genetics and gene therapy and also recent technology and regulatory and compliance issues. 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Reviews of previous editions:
"All contributors are to be congratulated for producing a book which is readable, up-to-date and thought provoking, as well as being an invaluable guide to underwriting practice. Every life office should have at least one copy - and every underwriter and every actuary should know where it is."--Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (review of 3rd edition)
"This underwriter cannot imagine anyone choosing to go on underwriting medical risks without handy access to a copy of Medical Selection of Life Risks. On second thought better buy two. The first one is apt to get dog-eared fairly quickly."--On the Risk, vol. 15 no.1, 1999 (review of fourth edition)

About the Author

R.D.C. Brackenridge has had a long and distinguished career as Consulting Medical Officer to Swiss Re Life and Health. He was President of the Assurance Medical Society in 1977 and was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine in 1995. Richard S. Croxson is Chief Medical Officer for Swiss Re Life and Health ( formerly Mercantile and General ). B. Ross Mackenzie is Chief Medical Director for Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1056 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 5th edition (May 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1403906769
• ISBN-13: 978-1403906762
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.5 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,762,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)