Lewis Workman, BS, FSA, MAAA, is the 1997 recipient of LOMA’s highest educational honor—the Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI) Insurance Education Award.

First granted in 1979, the award recognizes individuals for their contributions to insurance education and the FLMI Program. It will be presented during LOMA’s Annual Conference in Montreal in late September.

In announcing this year’s award winner, William H. Rabel, Ph.D., FLMI, CLU, senior vice president, Education Division, said, "Lewis Workman’s greatest service has been to LOMA’s educational area. He has been an inspirational contributor to insurance education and had an impact on generations of student."

For many years, Workman served as head actuary of Central Life Assurance Company. Early in his career, he co-authored Fundamental Mathematics of Life Insurance with Floyd Harper. This textbook and its successor, Mathematical Foundations of Life Insurance, written by Workman alone in 1982, provided the textual basis for the FLMI examination on life insurance mathematics.

In addition to his written contributions to insurance education, from 1979 until the new Managing for Solvency and Profitability textbook was added to the program in the fall of 1996, Workman served on the examinations development panel for what was generally known as "LOMA’s actuarial course."

After retiring from Central Life in 1989, Workman continued to pay his own way from Des Moines to participate in review sessions, most of which were held in Atlanta. He was always an enthusiastic and valuable participant in the process, providing new and helpful insights which not only gave the examinations a reputation for quality, but for authenticity as well. Over the years, Workman also served as chairman of LOMA’s Administrative Committee.