Spencer Le Van Kimball was a world-renowned scholar on insurance law and regulation, who was deeply admired for his integrity, keen insight and zeal for "getting it right." Much of his work in insurance law remains a model for insurance codes today, most notably in the areas of guaranty funds and insurance liquidations.
As an active member of the JIR Board of Directors for nearly 15 years, Kimball played a key role in helping improve the quality and quantity of research on insurance regulatory issues. In 1996, the JIR Article Award was renamed the Spencer L. Kimball Writing Award in honor of Kimball's many contributions to the pages of the JIR and to its various committees.
The Spencer L. Kimball Writing Award acknowledges and encourages outstanding contributions to the Journal of Insurance Regulation. One article is chosen each year for this prestigious $2,000 award.
| Year Awarded | Author(s) | Article | Publication Date |
| 2021 |
Elizabeth Plummer William F. Wempe |
Do Health Insurers Manage Their Medical Loss Ratios? At What Cost? | 2021 (Vol. 40, No. 1) |
| 2020 |
Mary Kelly Steven G. Bowen R. Glenn McGillivray |
The Earthquake Insurance Protection Gap: A Tale of Two Countries |
2020 (Vol. 39, No. 11) |
| 2019 |
Jeffrey S. Paterson Cathryn M. Meegan |
Too Close for Comfort: Diminished Effectiveness of Ratio-Based Solvency Monitoring When Insurers Are Located Close to Their State Insurance Regulators | 2019 (Vol. 38, No. 10) |
| 2018 | Thomas Miller | Analyzing the Impact of Time Horizon, Volatility and Profit Margins on Solvency Capital: Proposing a New Model for the Global Regulation of the Insurance Industry | 2018 (Vol. 37, No. 4) |
| 2017 | Charles C. Yang Hong-Jen Lin |
The (Mis) alignment of Health Insurers' Efficiency Measures from Different Perspectives and Their (Un)linkage with Financial Ratios and Asset Allocation | 2017 (Vol. 36, No. 8) |
| 2016 |
N/A |
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| 2015 | Jing Ai Patrick L. Brockett Linda L. Golden Utai Pitaktong |
How to set Rates if you must: An Efficiency-Based Methodology for Setting Promulgated Insurance Rates with an Application to Title Insurance | 2015 (Vol. 34, No. 7) |
| 2014 |
Martin Eling |
Basis Risk, Procyclicality, and Systemic Risk in the Solvency II Equity Risk Module | 2014 (Vol. 33, No. 1) |
| 2013 | Robert W. Klein Martin F. Grace Sharon Tennyson |
The Effects of Regulatory Reforms in the South Carolina Auto Insurance Market | 2013 (Vol. 32, No. 1) |
| 2012 | Robert E. Hoyt Andre P. Liebenberg L. Lee Colquitt Stephen G. Fier |
Robert E. Hoyt, Andre P. Liebenberg, L. Lee Colquitt, Stephen G. Fier | 2012 (Vol. 31, No. 7) |
| 2011 | Dwight Jaffee Howard Kunreuther Erwann Michel-Kerjan |
Long-Term Property Insurance | 2010 (Vol. 29, No. 7) |
| 2010 | Beck A. Taylor Tracey A. LaPierre James W. Henderson Christopher J. Conover J. Allen Seward |
Estimating the Impact of State Health Insurance Mandates on Premium Costs in the Individual Market | Spring 2009 (Vol. 27, No. 3) |
| 2009 | Martin Eling Ines Holzmuller |
An Overview and Comparison of Risk-Based Capital Standards | Summer 2008 (Vol. 26, No. 4) |
| 2008 | Robert Puelz | Lessons from the Texas Homeowners Insurance Crisis | Spring 2007 (Vo. 25, No. 3) |
| 2007 | George Galster | Do Home Insurance Base Premium-Setting Policies Create Disparate Racial Impacts? The Case of Large Insurance Companies in Ohio | Summer 2006 (Vol. 24, No. 4) |
| 2006 | Howard Kunreuther Mark V. Pauly |
Terrorism Losses and All Perils Insurance | Summer 2005 (Vol. 23, No. 4) |
| 2005 | Robert W. Cooper | Responding to Alleged Fraud in Certain Broker Compensation Arrangements: The Need for a More Transparent Crisis Management Process for Regulators – Part 1 | Winter 2004 (Vol. 23, No. 2) |
| 2004 | N/A | ||
| 2003 | N/A | ||
| 2002 | N/A | ||
| 2001 | Craig Richardson Mark A. Hall |
Agents' Behavior Under Health Insurance Market Reforms |
Spring 2000 |
| 2000 | William M. Sneed | The McCarran-Ferguson Act and Insurance Insolvency: Judicial Developments Since United States Dep't of Treasury v. Fabe | Summer 1999 (Vol. 17, No. 4) |
| 1999 | Patrick P. Fee Robert W. Klein Martin Grace Scott E. Harrington |
Identifying Troubled Insurers: An Analysis of the NAIC FAST System |
Spring 1998 |
| 1998 | Rade T. Musulin | Issues in Regulatory Acceptance of Computer Modeling for Property Insurance Ratemaking | Spring 1997 (Vol. 15, No. 3) |
| 1997 | William T. Moore Julie A.B. Cagle Robert L. Lippert Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. |
Demutualization in the Property-Liability Insurance Industry Diversity of State Valuation Laws and Regulations: Opportunity or Curse? |
Spring 1996 Winter 1996 |
| 1996 | Robert W. Klein Michael M. Barth Robert Hoyt Reesa Williams |
Solvency Monitoring in the Twenty-First Century The Effectiveness of Catastrophe Futures as a Hedging Mechanism for Insurers: An Empirical and Regulatory Analysis |
Spring 1995 Fall 1995 |