Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Some companies are planning to increase sales and lower expenses by packaging the sale of long-term-care coverage with complementary products. Life and annuity combinations, market positioning, product features and product development issues are discussed.

Description: This study identifies large categories of conditions that long-term care insurance LTCI carriers previously might have avoided because of a lack of data. This study estimates claims, mortality, and lapse rates for several conditions. Many of the conditions are further analyzed into risk categories, some of which would be insurable at standard rates.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about elements of long-term care - provider, patients, financing - problems that must be overcome to insure long-term care, managed care solution, practical considerations in offering long-term care policy.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the types of combination products currently on the market, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in designing new types of combination products.

Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists discuss the results of the SOA's Intercompany Experience Study dealing with long-term-care insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session presents techniques and tools for valuing long-term-care insurance for mergers and acquisitions, drivers behind M&A activity in this market, the appraisal process. Specific situations are discussed.

Description: How do combo products fit in the new statutory valuation framework?

Description: Third article in a series on how to use predictive analytics to improve the development of long-term care projection assumptions.

Description: This article is the first installment of a three-part series and is focused on providing an overview of LTC modeling approaches and considerations.