Discussion of "Loss Estimates Using S-Curves: Environmental and Mass Tort Liabilities" by Bruce E. Ollodart

This paper is a discussion of Bruce Ollodart's 1997 Winter Forum paper on using S-Curves to model environmental and mass tort liabilities. To start, there is a brief summary of Ollodart's paper. Then I introduce a type of S-Curve known as the logistic curve. The logistic curve assumes a maximum number of claims so it eliminates at least one of the problems Ollodart mentions with the curves he discusses. Finally, I finish with some comments on the modeling process.