Description: This 1978 session looked at the intersection of social and private insurance including: 1. Social insurance involvement in casualty and property coverages 2. Impact of social insurance and individual disability insurance 3. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans in the United States 4. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans and on individual insurance plans in Canada

Description: Panelists discuss a variety of recent developments in the group disability marketplace, including new risk-based-capital requirements, progress toward a new experience table, and the impact of war and recession. Also discussed was a new catastrophic-event LTD pool originated by John Hewitt & Associates [JHA]. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 81OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on group long-term disability insurance. The panel examines trends in termination & frequency rates, underwriting & product costs in anticipation of a recession, the impact of human rights on benefit design, anti-selection on pregnancy benefits and benefit design with regards to age discrimination. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This is a discussion about the impact the 1965 OASDI changes will have on group long-term disability insurance and group medical insurance. Also discussed are the rates of growth of separate accounts and variable annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

Description: This is discussion about the impact of mass marketing has on smaller companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No 59

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. In this session the sustainability of the historic profitability of group long-term disability was discussed along with the effects of benefit liberalizations, declining interest rates, and economic conditions on profitability.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the current developments related to U.S. Social Security and the Canadian governmental disability programs and their impact on today's disability insurance market, financial underwriting for group and individual disability income products and new disability experience and valuation tables. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: Several employers at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss their experience implementing managed disability programs of different types. These employers discuss the barriers they needed to overcome to implement their approach to managed disability, and the impact of their managed programs on cost and quality of service.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues surrounding retirement at age 70. What redesigns of group life, disability, and health plans is necessary as a result of raising the minimum mandatory retirement age to 70? What is the cost effect of these changes? How do you handle benefit design in states with no mandatory retirement age? How should pension and profit-sharing plans be changed to conform to the new law? From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: Panelists in session 65OF of the New Orleans Annual Meeting provide a summary of products in today's disability insurance marketplace containing ROP rider and current pricing and reserving issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 65OF.