Description: This is a brief report that summarizes recent changes in the prevalent medical loss ratio methodologies and also looks at some of the more recent experience of health insurers that filed medical loss ratio reports.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to active life reserves for health insurance including the feasability of standardized reserves, surplus strain from minimum reserves, and active life reserves on cancelable business.

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: The presenters will discuss the range of draft repeal/repair/replace legislation proposed to date, the elements most likely to be included in the final law, and possible temporary and transitional measures to be taken. They will share their findings regarding the impact on the industry of these changes using the most up to date data and modeling available.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss group life and health insurance, including modifications of standard underwriting controls and administration practices for groups of less than 25 lives claim experience and other matters relating to those smaller groups the experience of companies writing hospital plans new forms of group accident and sickness benefits [e.g. major medical] and experience on conversions of group accident and sickness. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at persistency of accident and health insurance, variation by type of coverage, recent experience, and the future outlook.

Description: 1973 SOA Annual Meeting. This paper provided summaries of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meeting including: 1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH PROGRAMS. 2. MARKETING INDIVIDUAL ORDINARY INSURANCE. 3. ACTUARIAL LITERATURE. 4. INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE. 5. GROUP SURVIVOR INCOME BENEFITS. 6. GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH - EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS. 7. PENSION PLAN FINANCIAL REPORTING.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This discussion on statistical analysis and group insurance examines the use of Reports of Mortality and Morbidity by smaller companies, practices followed to obtain a satisfactory experience with group accident, sickness and group hospital, surgical and medical coverages. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 18.

Description: This research report provides an evaluation and synthesis of the methodologies and data samples used on characterizing health care fraud.