Description: This article addresses the complexities and practicalities of constructing a continuance curve from long-term care LTC claims data.

Description: A summary of a scientific paper written to address the differences and similarities between the option pricing method now more commonly known as fair valuation and the actuarial appraisal method.

Description: Mortality data and results for care home residents in England and Wales. Looking at numbers of death may indicate that there are fewer rate, but diving deep into various sub segments and looking at death rates, tells a different story.

Description: This article incorporates the NAIC long-term care insurance model regulation to discuss the appropriateness of rate increases by monitoring emerging experience to manage the risk. This includes experience analysis issues, maximum rate increase calculations, business considerations and valuation issues. From Long-Term Care, December 2003, Issue 10

Description: This article will highlight new model visualization approaches we use to shed light on the “black-box” nature of advanced modeling techniques. These visualizations help us better highlight and understand the key drivers of predictions so that they can be understood and validated by all stakeholders

Description: Brief summary of Study Analyzing Demographic Experience of Continuing Care Retirement Community Residents. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: The article provides an overview of the federal tax treatment of long-term care insurance contracts, including a brief history of the tax treatment of long-term care insurance, the requirements that must be satisfied in order to be treated as qualified long-term care insurance under the Internal Revenue Code, and a brief discussion of qualified long-term care combination products and chronic and terminal illness accelerated death benefits offered under life insurance contracts.

Description: Long Term Care Insurance Reserves and Reinsurance Balancing between statutory and GAAP requiements. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Methodology for identifying principles based economic capital.

Description: This article provides a high-level overview of the 2016 Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance (ILTCI) Conference. The article contains a summary of all conference activities, including various networking and educational opportunities. The main objective of the conference is to provide an information sharing and collaborative environment for insurance professionals, regulatory authorities, insurance educational institutes, actuaries and other special groups with an interest in long-term care (LTC) insurance.