Description: This session discusses current short-term disability benefits, recent market trends, pricing and risk management issues. Includes a discussion on voluntary benefits, self-funding and packaging with long-term disability. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 93

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Speakers present some perspectives from brokers and their clients and what the marketplace thinks of managed disability. Moreover, original concepts of managed disability and two case studies with quantitative data are also presented.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel examines current issues involving disability income reinsurance, presented from both the insurer and reinsurer viewpoints, including: recent reinsurer experience, problems facing DI writers, and uses of reinsurance.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on individual disability insurance. Topics discussed include definitions of disability, review of experience, reserve adequacy, claim recognition, HIAA Special Disability Committee, presentation of Disability Termination Rates paper. 1979 Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Inability to quantify the volatility in individual disability income insurance is one of the key reasons for loss experiences in the industry. Discussion covers: volatility measures for reserving, application of reserve adequacy criteria under various plan designs, application of volatility measures to pricing, and a test of the effectiveness of volatility measures.

Description: This session is about appointed actuary issues for the health actuary including cash-flow testing, asset valuation and risk-based capital. From Record of Society of Actuary Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: Panel discussion on current issues, trends, and methodology in individual disability income insurance, including overinsurance, pricing, financial reporting, as well as efforts by professional associations to address these issues.

Description: This discussion panel, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented information related to income replacement policies- e.g. disability income. Topics covered included: 1. Pros and cons of integrated income replacement policies. 2. Are there any regulatory problems so far? 3. Recent experience and premium rate considerations. 4. Necessary home office support. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 8, No. 2.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. In this discussion, claim management experts describe state-of-the-art claim management theories and practices for disability coverages.