QOTD: Hell-raising actuary edition

It was just the right thing to do. They were doing something wrong they thought they could get away with. They thought [they] could push me around. I just wanted to stop it. That’s Bill Rudd, the actuary who took a $455.7 million chunk out of Great West Life in Canada. Profile here. Background here.

Actuarial hell-raiser scores $456M victory

Before I wrote the headline above, I too thought the phrase actuarial hell-raiser was an oxymoron, out there with jumbo shrimp or teetotalling broker. But consider Bill Rudd, former chief actuary of Canada’s London Life, whose quixotic 13-year lawsuit against some of Canada’s leading corporate interests has paid off – big. London Life is a [...]