Description: This article discusses the problems facing long-term care insurance. These include slowing sales, large premium increases and carriers exiting the market. The author suggests that the public needs to be better educated and that insurers need to find innovative ways to design products that are sustainable, yet sufficiently affordable to be attractive to a wide variety of buyers.

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.

Description: Article examines consistency across different underwriting manuals for LTCI.

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. The panelists discussed the RBC formula treatment for health products for the life and the health organizations and the managed care organizations. They also covered what the health terms look like in the casualty RBC formula.

Description: Mortality data and results for care home residents in England and Wales. Looking at numbers of death may indicate that there are fewer rate, but diving deep into various sub segments and looking at death rates, tells a different story.

Description: Four experts offer their insights into long term care and long term care insurance.

Description: A Review of Proposed Changes to the NAIC’s Model Regulations for LTC Insurance and it's shortcomings in addressing rate stability and marketing abuses. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2001, Issue No. 4.

Description: Preparing an initial LTCI rate filing under the 2000 LTCI Model Regulation certification requirements. From Long-Term Care, Dec 2003, Issue No. 10

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.