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

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers issues related to consulting actuaries including communication with various audiences, pension choices by employers, multiple employer plans, pension funding standards, individual life reinsurance, and product comparisons.

Description: This is a discussion about agency matters such as: new agents, experienced agents, general agents and managers, agent survival rates, etc. Also discussed is the future of the Society of Actuaries with reference to its role in providing service to its members and to the public. From Transactions of 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 51.

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans: -Group Life - What has been the effect of the new law taxing employer contributions in excess of $50K? What special underwriting problems have occurred, what underwriting techniques used, what has the mortality experience been? -Group Health - What are special considerations where premium rates are guaranteed for greater than one year? Are any additional reserves established? What are the current developments in Group dental? Have any experience studies been made? What is the potential market for group dental? -Group Annuities - What volume of business has been written on separate accounts or segregated funds? What problems have arisen in administering this type of plan? -Miscellaneous- What has been the experience on high limit accidental death and dismemberment benefits? In pension plans has there been an increase in joint and survivorship options? Has there been an increase in disability benefits under retirement plans? To what extent is the new money concept being adopted in fields other than group annuities? What is the current outlook with regard to reducing or eliminating the difference in taxes imposed on insured employee benefit plans vs self-insured plans? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This 1981 session focused on actuaries and the government. Topics included: 1. What do regulatory agencies expect of actuaries in their employ? 2. What do such agencies expect of: a The actuarial profession in its interface role? b The actuaries for companies and plans being regulated? 3. In the broadest sense, how can actuaries or the actuarial profession be helpful to government? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This is a discussion about pensions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various individual life and health insurance topics including new health benefits, health underwriting, life insurance guaranteed insurability, conditional receipts and term insurance.

Description: This report presents the results of a study on morbidity experience of the New York Life. Since the major medical programs of the New York Life have been fairly typical of the programs offered by insurance companies during the 1950's, it was determinedt that the results of this morbidity study, as well as the steps taken in developing a new morbidity table, would be of interest. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 42.

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: This discussion at as SOA 1968 Regional Meeting focuses on issues for smaller companies including expense analysis, new products, variable annuities, interim financial statements, and taxes.