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: [https://www.battleacts5.ca/pdf/CAS_(Unpaid_Claim_Estimates).pdf <span style="color: white; font-size: 12px; background-color: sandybrown; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-radius: 10px; border-color: sandybrown; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px; margin: 0px;">'''''STATEMENT of PRINCIPLES: &nbsp; Unpaid Claims Estimates'''''</span>]
 
: [https://www.battleacts5.ca/pdf/CAS_(Unpaid_Claim_Estimates).pdf <span style="color: white; font-size: 12px; background-color: sandybrown; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-radius: 10px; border-color: sandybrown; padding: 1px 3px 1px 3px; margin: 0px;">'''''STATEMENT of PRINCIPLES: &nbsp; Unpaid Claims Estimates'''''</span>]
  
Here's the essence of the 3 principles:
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Here's the essence of the 3 principles: ''(these are my own words)''
  
 
'''Principle 1'''
 
'''Principle 1'''
  
* An unpaid claims estimate is <u>reasonable</u> if you have used reasonable assumptions & methods, and your results are imply consistency with other available information ''(Ex: metrics like frequency & severity, comparison to prior quarters, comparison to industry data.)''
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* An unpaid claims estimate is <u>reasonable</u> if you have used reasonable assumptions & methods, and your results imply consistency with other available information ''(Ex: metrics like frequency & severity, comparison to prior quarters, comparison to industry data.)''
  
 
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'''Principle 2'''
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A good test of your understanding is to see if you can take take the principles as stated in the source text and restate them in your own words. That's all I did above and I feel like I get what they're trying to say without having to memorize them.
  
 
==POP QUIZ ANSWERS==
 
==POP QUIZ ANSWERS==

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Study Tips

This reading is only 2 pages. It provides definitions of basic terms like claim and coverage as well as 3 Principles regarding unpaid claims estimates. The definitions are obvious and you can take a few minutes to scan them if you'd like (link provided below.) The only things you specifically have to memorize are the 3 principles.

Estimated study time: 30 minutes (not including subsequent review time)

BattleTable

Based on past exams, the main things you need to know (in rough order of importance) are:

  • how to assess reserving issues using common sense
reference part (a) part (b) part (c) part (d)
E (2013.Fall #15) reserve study design:
- considerations
Friedland06.Diagnostics Friedland06.Diagnostics Friedland06.Diagnostics

In Plain English!

Here's a link to the source text:

STATEMENT of PRINCIPLES:   Unpaid Claims Estimates

Here's the essence of the 3 principles: (these are my own words)

Principle 1

  • An unpaid claims estimate is reasonable if you have used reasonable assumptions & methods, and your results imply consistency with other available information (Ex: metrics like frequency & severity, comparison to prior quarters, comparison to industry data.)

Principle 2

Principle 3

A good test of your understanding is to see if you can take take the principles as stated in the source text and restate them in your own words. That's all I did above and I feel like I get what they're trying to say without having to memorize them.

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