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: Morbidity improvement has been a hot topic in the LTC market in the past year. This session will provide an update of studies performed in the industry to review historical data for morbidity improvement and considerations that actuaries should take when determining what level of morbidity improvement to include in their best estimate assumptions.

Description: Many insurers have one or more existing blocks of LTC insurance coverage. As products are revised, older policies are affected greatly. This session discusses possible strategies for dealing with older policies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 119.

Description: Panel session on the challenge that many insurers face as they try to grow their long-term-care insurance business, while simultaneously ensuring analysts and shareholders that earnings targets will be met.

Description: This session discussion is about nonforfeiture values for long-term care: valuation of different approaches [cash surrender value, return of premium, reduced paid-up, extended term, shortened benefit period], sensitivity testing, implications for marketing and regulatory status. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This session discusses techniques that can be used for the designing, pricing and reserving of new long-term care [LTC] benefits. Included is a discussion on wellness benefits and options for traditional LTC insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 97

Description: Experience reporting forms (ERFs) are submitted by LTC insurers each year tracking their experience by year for earned premium, incurred claims, policy reserves, claim counts and policies in force.

Description: This session discusses the valuation of group long-term disability [LTD] claims. Topics include general valuation issues [duration, claims, reserves, offsets, administration expenses], reviewing financial results, GAAP LTD margins and the impact of margins on pricing. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 70