Description: Editor's preview of the September 2008 issue of the LTC Section news, including articles on claim reserves, claimant perspectives, independent providers, caregiver perspectives, and recent research. projects.

Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.

Description: Will the Enrolled Actuary replace the FSA? Maybe was the answer to that question, which posed the topic for discussion at a recent New York Actuaries Club meeting. This 1976 article is a recap of that recent meeting, discussing the implications for the SOA and Academy of the new federal designation of Enrolled Actuary for pension actuaries, and how that would play out with respect to the SOA’s professional designations and the role of the Academy.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: Preview of the LTC section's sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in October 2008, including claims management, litigation and public relations, preparing for PBA and stochastic modeling, pricing, research studies, and securitizations and reinsurance.

Description: Column describing the events of a recent Product Development Symposium 2009.