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: The panelists in this session discuss current industry practices and new considerations on many items of interest to LTD valuation actuaries. Topics include an update on the Group LTD Experience Study, assumptions and methodology for integration provisions, reserve margin illustrations using asset share models, and reserve run out analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 54

Description: Panelists discuss current market dynamics, product features, claims adjudication, changes in underwriting requirements, and modeling. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss a variety of ways in which nontraditional reinsurance has been used lately by individual disability income carriers. Such reinsurance transactions have included finite reinsurance, surplus relief and stop loss reinsurance.

Description: This session provides actuaries who work with group life and disability products with the opportunity to participate in a moderated discussion with their colleagues. The specific topics will be those of interest to attendees, but are likely to include recent experience trends, product development, pricing and reserving.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting discuss current issues and emerging trends in the marketplace for group long-term and short-term disability income.