Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discusses current developments in the market for long-term-care insurance including underwriting, regulatory activity, pricing and plan design.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers long term care and health related issues for valuation, an update from the Risk-Based Capital Task Force of the Academy on developing a risk-based capital formula for health coverages, an overview of the health practice notes.

Description: Panelists identify the unique challenges and risks associated with asset/liability management for long-term care insurance and explore possible solutions to the challenges identified. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 28pd.

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: 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: The panel demonstrates a technique that can help set confidence intervals regarding future rate increases used to satisfy the NAIC rate stabilization model. Specific topics include creating a stochastic model, deciding which variables are deterministic vs. stochastic, developing probability distributions for the stochastic variables, running the model and evaluating the reasonableness of results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 21

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. The panelists discussed the RBC formula treatment for health products for the life and the health organizations and the managed care organizations. They also covered what the health terms look like in the casualty RBC formula.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: This session explores the issues raised and logistical problems encountered in setting risk-based capital RBC factors for various health products. Also discussed is the development of surplus requriements for disability income products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 95