Description: This panel discussion examines individual long term disability insurance and discusses increased incidences, overinsurance, social insurance, new products and better underwriting. From Record of Society of Actuaries, 1977 Vol. 3 No. 3, Mr. Shapland moderating.

Description: The session discussion is valuation and reserving issues with regards to group medical - including HMOs, and individual medical - including disability and long-term care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses how competition has affected contract provisions, renewability, definition of disability, underwriting and rates and trends in product design including unisex rates, residual /Income replacement definitions and non-smoker discounts. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

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: Several employers at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss their experience implementing managed disability programs of different types. These employers discuss the barriers they needed to overcome to implement their approach to managed disability, and the impact of their managed programs on cost and quality of service.

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.

Description: This is a discussion about underwriting and claims experience for long-term diability benefits. Topics include offsets, impact of economy and reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 2, No. 47 AB

Description: This discussion looks at the success rate companies have in the sale of long-term disability benefits, benefits provided after plan termination, appropriate experience for determination of premiums and reserves, determination of reserve liabilities for continuing claims, and experience rating.

Description: In an endeavor to reach some conclusion as to our real liabilities for such benefits, we have made a double valuation of our outstanding disability benefits, using 1 a maximum or conservative basis and 2 a minimum or liberal basis. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This article is a discussion of a study released in June 1976 by the New York Insurance Department, entitled “Disability Income Insurance – Cost Differentials between Men and Women.” The author of this article notes that “due to charges by various groups of discrimination in the underwriting and establishing of premium rates for individual disability income insurance, the results of this study have been eagerly awaited by many segments of the insurance industry. Fears of substantiating uni-sex rates were unfounded as the results of the study generally conformed to those of the Society of Actuaries which the industry has relied on to a great extent in the past.”