Defining Discrimination and Quantifying Disparate Impact in Insurance

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are a powerful tool for actuaries, offering a flexible, data-driven approach to modeling continuous variables while maintaining interpretability and avoiding overfitting. They provide a natural extension to Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), with many shared techniques and methods, making GAMs a useful addition to the actuarial toolkit. In this Pinnacle APEX Webinar, Senior Consulting Actuary Radost Wenman will provide a high-level conceptual overview of GAMs, highlighting their role as an extension of GLMs for modeling nonlinearity in continuous variables

Join Pinnacle Senior Consulting Actuary Darcie Truttmann, Consulting Actuaries Trenton Lipka and Juhyun Shin as they discuss the Actuarial Standard Boards recent developments of Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOPs). The team will discuss updates to ASOPs over the last year, changes to come in 2025 and provide a deep dive into particular ASOPs and best practices. As with other Pinnacle APEX Webinars, professional continuing education (CE) credit may be available for this webinar. 

The Florida homeowners sector is one of the most dynamic in the insurance industry. With a unique economic, geographic and legal environment, market conditions change frequently. Pinnacle is very pleased once again to present our annual State of the Florida Homeowners Market APEX Webinar. On this APEX, Vice President of Corporate Analytics for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation March Fisher, Pinnacle Senior Consulting Actuary Chris Schubert and Consulting Actuary James Wencil will present and analyze the latest Florida homeowners market data and share insights into this large and