Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. This panelists discuss how have different individual disability lines of business [stock versus mutual, large versus small] have tried to improve their profitability. They discuss profitability expectations, key factors affecting profitability, recent changes to improve profitability and most difficult obstacles faced, and key management information systems [MIS] needs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss implementing GAAP for health products with emphasis on differences with life insurance. Current efforts of mutual companies to implement GAAP is also discussed.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.

Description: The report details data from a number of carriers on the percentage of LTD claimants who are receiving disability benefits from other sources that offset their LTD benefits and how this percentage is affected by various factors.

Description: This session discussion is about Aids and pricing, underwriting, contract limits, claim reserves, current experience, modeling, and future outlook. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. This report should be viewed as a supplement to the Individual Life Report. Many of the issues and conclusions in the Individual Life Report are equally applicable to individual disability insurance and are therefore not discussed herein. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: Panel explores new disability products offered by writers of individual disability insurance and the ways in which these products connect with other types of insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel explored ways in which disability insurance underwriting guidelines must be closely linked to product design and sales methods. Panelists discussed a number of specific issues, including emerging illnesses, the protective value of various testing procedures, the role of financial underwriting, and the links between product, price, and underwriting.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 Dallas Regional Meeting is about current issues in individual disability income market, including underwriting, claim control, product design, sales tactic, management reports, reinsurance and closed block strategies.

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Robert W. Beal from Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.