Description: This article discusses the comparative results from the SOA Mortality Table Structure survey. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.

Description: This is an article about The 5th Annual Forum's Institutional sponsored by the Society of Actuaries, LIMRA, Target Marketing magazine, Best's Review, and "Insurance Newscast." From News Direct, June 2007, Issue No. 56.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the impact point-of-service [POS] plans have had on both HMOs and on indemnity carriers. Different types of POS plans and the problems presented by primary care gatekeepers are discussed.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting focuses on the polictical landscape with respect to health care issues including Medicare, prescription drug coverage, the concept of a patient's 'bill of rights', and other health care reform ideas.

Description: Medical stop-loss reinsurance continues to play a vital role in containing employers’ health care costs. Managing general underwriters [MGUs], who originally handled these programs, have lost market share to large direct writers. This article discusses how health care reform and highly disciplined underwriting tools offer growth opportunities to MGUs.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are research projects and reports on long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies for long-term care insurance.

Description: This report presents results from the study undertaken during 1993 and 1994 by the Direct Response Persistency and Mortality Task Force. Direct response product experience is presented for persistency, and mortality for both underwritten and guaranteed issue products.

Description: This is the third and final installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs. The article illustrates how traditional asset share calculations are not appropriate in this case.