Description: This paper presents the findings of the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Individual Accident and Health Valuation Principles concerning statutory reserve standards for policy and claim reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a simplified method of calculating adjusted benefit reserves for any line of life or health insurance. Specific examples are applied to individual hospital and major medical insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973 Vol. 25 Pt. 1 No. 73

Description: The principal objective of this paper is to remind actuaries of the rather significant misconceptions and distortions commonly encountered in the use of individual accident and health insurance loss ratios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper was prepared to facilitate discussions with the New York State Insurance Department concerning price regulation and the application of minimum loss ratio standards for individual health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: This article will clarify valuation issues for the waiver of premium benefit in Accident and Health products.

Description: This paper presents the commutation functions and net premiums required for reserve calculations with specimen reserve tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: In this paper, a model is proposed as a potential explanation for the steady deterioration in loss ratios often observed on blocks of individual health insurance policies. This model, which incorporates assumptions of anti-selective lapses, can be used for morbidity projections and projections of the effects of rate increases. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: 1973 SOA Regional Meetings, Saint Paul and San Francisco. This paper provided a summary of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meetings including: 1. PRICE DISCLOSURE AND COST COMPARISON. 2. INDIVIDUAL LIFE AND HEALTH UNDERWRITING. 3. TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING. 4. INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE - PROBLEMS AND PRODUCT TRENDS. 3. VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE. 6. POLLUTION, POPULATION, AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE. 7. HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS.

Description: 1973 SOA Annual Meeting. This paper provided summaries of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meeting including: 1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH PROGRAMS. 2. MARKETING INDIVIDUAL ORDINARY INSURANCE. 3. ACTUARIAL LITERATURE. 4. INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE. 5. GROUP SURVIVOR INCOME BENEFITS. 6. GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH - EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS. 7. PENSION PLAN FINANCIAL REPORTING.

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meetings, Jacksonville and Chicago. This is a discussion about statutory reporting issues surrounding group term and group accident and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2.