Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses trends in group medical product design including cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting considerations, rating considerations and monitoring and evaluating effectiveness. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: This session discussion is about PPOs' types of sponsors, structures, effectiveness and regulation. Includes a discussion on PPOs in the UK. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting focused on Disability Income Marketing Approaches for group disability, multiple employer trusts and individual disability. The following factors that influenced the market place were reviewed: high inflation, high unemployment and regulations. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented a discussion on management strategies in today's group insurance market. Strategies discussed included: a. Coping with economic cycles, b. The cost shifting problem,c. Organizational structure, d. Administrative requirements, e. Marketing strategies, f. Product design and costs. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 8, No. 4.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Definition of good and sufficient provision for unpaid and actuarial liabilities as used in the NAIC model bill, Actuary and auditor relationships in documentation, reasonableness of results, materiality, margins, and disclosure, Techniques for estimating unpaid claim liabilities, Reverse testing, Considerations regarding incurred date coding in establishing claim reserves, Reserving methodologies for alternative funding products, Reserves for catastrophic claims, Measurement, evaluation, and adjustment for claim department backlogs, changes in claim submission patterns, and environmental changes, etc.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting covers group insurance underwriting and selection issues including self insurance, financial results of group insurers, the underwriting and selection issues involving nontraditional group benefit programs, and techniques for monitoring the underwriting policy.

Description: This session of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses health liabilities and reserves.