Description: The session discussion is valuation and reserving issues with regards to group medical - including HMOs, and individual medical - including disability and long-term care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: Several employers at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss their experience implementing managed disability programs of different types. These employers discuss the barriers they needed to overcome to implement their approach to managed disability, and the impact of their managed programs on cost and quality of service.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. In this discussion, claim management experts describe state-of-the-art claim management theories and practices for disability coverages.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Speakers present some perspectives from brokers and their clients and what the marketplace thinks of managed disability. Moreover, original concepts of managed disability and two case studies with quantitative data are also presented.

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

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel examines current issues involving disability income reinsurance, presented from both the insurer and reinsurer viewpoints, including: recent reinsurer experience, problems facing DI writers, and uses of reinsurance.

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: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers trends in health group products and experience, including managed care, PPO's, HMO's, POS's and PHO's. It also covers new developments in group long term disability products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. In this session the sustainability of the historic profitability of group long-term disability was discussed along with the effects of benefit liberalizations, declining interest rates, and economic conditions on profitability.

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the movement to small group health plans, group insurance underwriting, the plan design of non-traditional benefit programs such as cafeteria plans, HMO's and PPO's and new financial processes. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.