Howard C Mahler

Mr. Howard C. Mahler, MA, FCAS, MAAA, received his Master's Degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1976.  He became a member of the American Academy of Actuaries in 1980 and a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society in 1981.  He has taught seminars on loss distributions and credibility for NEAS since 1994. Currently Mr. Mahler teaches seminars on CAS Exam 3L, SOA MLC, Joint Exam MFE/3F, Joint Exam 4/C, CAS Exam 5 and CAS Exam 9.

 From 1984 to 1999, Mr. Mahler was Vice President and Actuary at the Workers' Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts, where he was responsible for the actuarial and statistical reporting functions. Previously, Mr. Mahler was Director of the Massachusetts State Rating Bureau (1981-1984).  Prior to that he was an actuary with the Continental Insurance Company in New York.

 Mr. Mahler served for 12 years on the CAS Examination Committee in positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in a three year term as Chairperson (1990 - 1993)..

 Mr. Mahler is the author of numerous papers on experience rating, credibility theory, and actuarial ratemaking. His chapter “Credibility”, written with Curtis Gary Dean, is presently on the Course 4 syllabus. He has three papers on the CAS Exam 9 syllabus:"An Example of Credibility and Shifting Risk Parameters", PCAS 1990, “Workers Compensation Excess Ratios: An Alternative Method of Estimation,” PCAS 1998, and his Discussion of “Retrospective Rating: 1997 Excess Loss Factors,” PCAS 1998.His paper "An Introduction to Underwriting Profit Models, PCAS 1985 was on the CAS Part 6 syllabus in the late 1980s.

 He received the CAS Dorweiler Prize in 1987, for his review of "An Analysis of Experience Rating" [Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Volume 74 (1987), pages 119-189.].