Description: This paper describes a modified development method for analyzing claims experience and calculating claim reserves and liabilities on short-term health insurance benefits. It identifies many of the influences on claim development and discusses various ways to recognize them. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

Description: This paper presents a different approach to measuring Health Expectancy, especially as it relates to the elderly population. This new actuarial approach is described and numerous examples are given.

Description: This panel discussion was devoted principally to the following two papers commissioned for the Society of Actuaries 25th anniversary meeting: 1.'The Future of the Actuarial Profession as Viewed in A.D. 1974' by John M. Bragg, and 2. 'Consulting Actuaries in Canada and the United States' by Samuel Eckler and Wendell A. Milliman. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.

Description: The main purpose on this panel discussion is to deal with certain actions which private health insurance must take if the threat of socialized medicine and state health insurance is to be overcome. The panelists address the following issues: 1. How hospital and medical care needs are being met [or can be met] by health insurance plans, 2. The role of local, state and federal government agencies, and 3. The relations of hospitals and the medical profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: Discussion of developments with regards to addressing major medical care needs since 1959, including the passage of Medicare.

Description: Discusses professional statutory valuation standards, provides an update on the proposal of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF], and discusses minimum state requirements and federal income tax deductibility for reserves. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: At the end of 1963 health insurance claim reserves and liabilities held by companies on this continent totaled well over one billion dollars. This paper seeks to study the problems involved in calculating these reserves and liabilities and to describe the methods in use. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 44 AB.

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about the appropriate level of unassigned surplus and the rationale and accounting for contingency reserves. The question of a contingency reserve for Phase III tax is also discussed.

Description: Topics: Financial strength issues related to formation of new companies, and content of SOA's spring programs and discussion rules.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discusses a study by the Center for Futures Research 'CFR' at the University of California and possible users of CFR and similar studies in the strategic planning process.