Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: Panel session on the challenge that many insurers face as they try to grow their long-term-care insurance business, while simultaneously ensuring analysts and shareholders that earnings targets will be met.

Description: This article discusses the problems facing long-term care insurance. These include slowing sales, large premium increases and carriers exiting the market. The author suggests that the public needs to be better educated and that insurers need to find innovative ways to design products that are sustainable, yet sufficiently affordable to be attractive to a wide variety of buyers.

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: Panelists discuss pricing considerations on long-term care inforce contracts including: · State & NAIC regulation on premium rate changes · Challenges in implementing premium changes · Product design features like rate guarantees and limited-pay contracts From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 6

Description: Industry representatives address the market need for and acceptance of life and long-term care LTC combination products and the issues for carriers to consider regarding developing, marketing, and distributing this emerging product. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 13PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting.

Description: The likelihood that an executive will require some type of extended custodial or medical support—and the cost of that care—keep rising. In fact, the odds of an individual experiencing the need for a LTC claim are 120 times greater than losing his or her house because of a fire or other catastrophic loss, according to the American Healthcare Association.

Description: Highlights from the 8th Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance Conference held in March 2008, consisting of 56 sessions covering a range of long-term care insurance LTCI topics each with a track-specific focus.

Description: This paper presents a health status transition model developed as part of a larger LTC insurance pricing model. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities - The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: Recently, the SCAN Foundation, AARP, LeadingAge, and HHS funded economic modeling conducted by Milliman and the Urban Institute around LTC reform elements. The LTC industry has over the years also generated ideas to address the on-coming expansion of LTC needs in the U.S. For this article, we have brought together three individuals who have long involvement with LTC financing to discuss some of the recent ideas and provide some perspectives on their pluses and minuses.