Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about elements of long-term care - provider, patients, financing - problems that must be overcome to insure long-term care, managed care solution, practical considerations in offering long-term care policy.

Description: Panelists discuss the various styles of underwriting being used in both the individual and the group long-term-care markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Some companies are planning to increase sales and lower expenses by packaging the sale of long-term-care coverage with complementary products. Life and annuity combinations, market positioning, product features and product development issues are discussed.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Many long-term-care insurers are outsourcing administrative functions to management organizations. The panelists discuss the reasons for this outsourcing, the functions that can be outsourced, financial incentives for vendors, criteria for selecting a vendor, monitoring performance and other aspects of the business relationship.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: With the creation of 'qualified' long-term-care plans behind us, companies now have additional information regarding interpretations from the Treasury Department, regulations and directives from insurance departments, and feedback from the consumer. This presentation from Session 128PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting looks at what has been learned in the past two years about long-term care insurance and what state and federal regulatory changes may be on the horizon. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: At this presentation from Session 7PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists comment on the value they place on ensuring proper management of risk, contract preparation, underwriting and claim handling for long-term care policies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about Long-Term-Care valuation issues: current industry practices, regulatory needs, and the SOA Task Force on Valuation Methods of Long-Term-Care insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about underwriting of Long-Term Care. Topics discussed: 1. Certain aspects of the underwriting process. 2. Different generic types of underwriting. 3. Evaluating results and taking action. 4. Initial intercompany insured lives claim results.