Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a U.S. Individual Disability Income Persistency Study. The report, authored by Cathy Ho and Steve Elek, presents the results of a study of individual disability income (“IDI”) lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2000 and 2007. This is the first report in a two-part series that will present results of a study conducted jointly by LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and based on data provided by 12 individual disability income insurance writers.

Description: The 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) approved by the NAIC as the new statutory minimum reserve morbidity basis.

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: The panelists in this session explore the characteristics of liability cash flows for disability insurance and discuss the implications for a company's investment strategy. Specific topics to be addressed include cash-flow patterns, duration analysis, asset/liability matching and investment strategies.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 67

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: This session is about regulatory constraints and the role the NAIC is playing to help facilitate 24-hour programs, plan design issues, the use of managed care, coverage as part of a workers' compensation plan versus coverage of health care outside of the workers' compensation system. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about individual disability income Topics included: 1. Return of profitability. 2. Smaller industry. 3. Underwriting problems. 4. Claim problems.

Description: This presentation from Session 6PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting provides a comprehensive overview of today's disability insurance industry for group and individual disability insurers. Panelists address issues such as financial experience, mergers and acquisitions, changing products, the role of reinsurance, and growth potential. In addition, this session includes historical perspective on the disability insurance industry and a glimpse of what may lie ahead. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Discusses new-product displacement of in-force policies, critical-resource management, agency considerations, and monitoring experience. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.