Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: The panelists in this session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the outlook for the individual disability business including sales potential, nontraditional approaches to the market, and risk management issues.

Description: After many years of decline, the individual disability insurance industry is now experiencing double-digit growth in sales and profits. Attendees learn about quantitative and qualitative evidence of opportunities that exist in the individual disability market, along with specific varying product approaches. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 22

Description: Disability insurers are showing an increasing interest in benefits that tie closely to long-term care. Several insurers have developed disability products that offer additional disability benefits based on the loss of activities of daily living, while others offer options to convert disability policies into long-term care policies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting concentrates on four products: products to cover disability buy-outs, overhead expenses, key employee, and salary continuation in terms of markets, product design, pricing, taxation, reinsurance, underwriting and the Norris decision. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: Panel discussion on current issues, trends, and methodology in individual disability income insurance, including overinsurance, pricing, financial reporting, as well as efforts by professional associations to address these issues.

Description: Data on morbidity, loss ratios, actual-to-expected continuance rates, and lapse rates for disability insurance, and discussion of the implications with respect to legislation, product design, pricing, underwriting, and marketing. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers individual non-cancellable DI by three major writers who discuss their view of the viability of non-cancellable DI and some of the steps their companies have taken or are planning to take to address their concerns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Panelists discuss their practices and experiences implementing risk measurement and management for various health insurance product lines including disability income, long-term care, medical/managed care and group insurance products. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1., Session 65

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. An investment manager discusses investment strategy for a disability insurer and a rating agency representative and a stock analyst describe how disability insurers are evaluated for risk profile and other issues.