Description: This report represents the second in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries Long-Term Care Experience Committee and focuses on recent longterm care insurance industry persistency results. The study examines persistency experience by reporting on changes in both voluntary lapse and total termination activity for all participating companies during calendar years 2002 through 2004.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' health leadership met earlier this year for an all-day meeting in Chicago. A significant portion of that meeting was spent discussing current challenges facing the U.S. health care system and how the SOA can best serve its members by addressing top priority issues. The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005

Description: This is the sixth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 35 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. The study includes policies issued between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2007.

Description: This is the fourth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 24 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. Data has been collected on policies issued from January 1, 1984 through December 31, 2001.

Description: The SOA Committee on Elections and the June 1999 issue’s editor, Robert D. Shapiro, invited candidates for the office of president-elect of the Society of Actuaries to be interviewed by The Actuary. This annual service of The Actuary is intended to help Fellows make more informed choices in voting for a future SOA president.

Description: This letter was written in response to an article that ran in the October issue of The Actuary, titled "The Medical Malpractice Crisis: A Top=Down Solution" by Allen Elstein. Mr. Elstein's reply is also in this article.

Description: Examines the question of whether health-care costs, or health insurance costs, are in crisis.

Description: When we put together a newsletter for you, we submit all of the content about two months in advance of the publication date. I'm writing this editor's note on July 5th. I'm thinking forward and wondering what the rest of the summer will bring to us. What will have happened between July 5th and September 5th? From News Direct, September 2006, Number 54.

Description: This is an editorial about direct marketing, credit insurance and non-traditional product management. From News Direct, May 2006, Number 53.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on Life Settlements, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys Life Settlements Survey Subcommittee. The responses from two separate surveys, one to direct writers and the other to reinsurers, have been combined into this single report. Survey question topics include company characteristics, market participation, market management, and consequences to the Industry.