Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.

Description: Panelists and audience members give their views on health-insurance topics including recent large claims experience, frequency and severity components of large claims trends, pricing, reserving, and the outlook for the future. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 79OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Discussion of anticipated marketing and pricing considerations of Group Insurance in the 1980's including: a. Regulatory environment including National Health Insurance b. Economic and growth potential c. Competition including Health Maintenance Organizations d. Technology e. Evolving role of employee benefits f. Products g. Pricing considerations h. Marketing approaches Also, discussion of the 1960's and the 1970's a. Major influences b. Benefit changes c. Alternate funding approaches 2. The 1980's environment a.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the effects of consumerism and regulation on the health insurance industry in the United States and Canada. Includes legislation on non-discrimination, mandated benefits and special coverage such as credit & specified diseases. From Record of the SOA 1979 Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: In this session, presenters discuss the current dental market outlook, supply trends, and Medicaid dental programs for children. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 100

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses 3 papers: 'Report on Reserve Standards for Individual and Group Health Insurance Contracts' by the AAA Committee on Health, 'Reserve Principles for Individual Health Insurance' by the Committee for Accident and Health, and 'Structure for Consideration of Health Coverage Valuation Standards' by an NAIC Health Subcommittee of Standing Technical Advisory Group.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Definition of good and sufficient provision for unpaid and actuarial liabilities as used in the NAIC model bill, Actuary and auditor relationships in documentation, reasonableness of results, materiality, margins, and disclosure, Techniques for estimating unpaid claim liabilities, Reverse testing, Considerations regarding incurred date coding in establishing claim reserves, Reserving methodologies for alternative funding products, Reserves for catastrophic claims, Measurement, evaluation, and adjustment for claim department backlogs, changes in claim submission patterns, and environmental changes, etc.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the effect of recent changes in tax structures on employee benefits - their value to employees, limitations on deductibility by employers, taxability to employees, and the direction of likely future changes. Will the continued emphasis on additional revenue generation result in a shift in employer emphasis toward additional cash compensation versus employee benefits?

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at June 1980 Spring Meeting. Discusses recent developments related to health insurance reserves, the concepts included in several recent papers and committee reports on this topic, and the status of proposed model valuation legislation.