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.

Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: This 1978 session looked at the intersection of social and private insurance including: 1. Social insurance involvement in casualty and property coverages 2. Impact of social insurance and individual disability insurance 3. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans in the United States 4. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans and on individual insurance plans in Canada

Description: This abstract describes a presentation that shows a study on a long-term disability insurance portfolio under stochastic interest rates.

Description: Covers 1980 experience under individual loss-of-time policies in the first and second years of the benefit period, and historical data is shown from 1974 forward.

Description: This session provides actuaries who work with group life and disability products with the opportunity to participate in a moderated discussion with their colleagues. The specific topics will be those of interest to attendees, but are likely to include recent experience trends, product development, pricing and reserving.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: Discusses new valuation standards for credit disability insurance looking to be adopted by the NAIC.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that discusses the definition of forward rates in general and gives a generally valid definition of forward rates, and continues the work of Norberg (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, 47(2), 105-112), who made the first attempt to define general forward transition rates.

Description: Discusses the Canadian Institute of Actuaries' disability morbidity study to update the 1964 CDT and explains the techniques used to interpolate incidence rates from the 1964 CDT.