Description: Highlights of the 2013 Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance (ILTCI) Conference

Description: A physician discusses white matter lesions on the brain - their nature, causes, severity, importance, associated risks, and underwriting implications for long term care insurance.

Description: One of the dangers in any sort of modeling, whether for insurance experience or in financial portfolios, is becoming too reliant upon statistics and models, and not keeping reasoned, experienced judgment in sight. This article provides ways to address adverse experience possibilities resulting from misestimation risk.

Description: A summary from the annual ILTCI conference including session content from seven tracks focusing on unique issues and solutions in long term care.

Description: New products should address having acceptable carrier risks and at the same time enhance the product’s value to consumers to pave the way for broader acceptance.

Description: Preview of the December 2007 issue of the LTC Section news, including articles on individual claims, retrospective reserve testing, population health management, Alzheimers, psychiatric medication, and the latest LTC Experience Committee report.

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

Description: Remarks on the pricing of joint LTC policies illustrate the need for an actuary's responsibility to the law, and to best practices, to take precendence over serving sales, marketing and underwriting objectives.

Description: Review of FASB's proposed "Targeted Improvements" to long duration insurance accounting and how they will impact valuation processes for Long Term Care.

Description: Preview of the LTC section's sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in October 2008, including claims management, litigation and public relations, preparing for PBA and stochastic modeling, pricing, research studies, and securitizations and reinsurance.