Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses 3 papers: 'Report on Reserve Standards for Individual and Group Health Insurance Contracts' by the AAA Committee on Health, 'Reserve Principles for Individual Health Insurance' by the Committee for Accident and Health, and 'Structure for Consideration of Health Coverage Valuation Standards' by an NAIC Health Subcommittee of Standing Technical Advisory Group.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is highlighting recent developments in the Chicago health care delivery system, the involvement of Chicago area HMOs, PPOs and insurers in the financing and delivery of health care services, and issues unique to the Chicago market as well as issues applicable to other geographical areas.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on group life and health insurance including external changes in market characteristics and needs and strategies to respond to market conditions. From Vol. 9, No. 1

Description: Panelists discuss the morbidity characteristics, selection patterns, benefit/product designs, and underwriting when employees can choose from among multiple group health products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the results of three research projects funded by the Actuarial Education and Research Fund [AERF] and other sources. They look at HMO and managed-competition health-care plans, offered primarily to Minnesota state employees, to examine the risk of premium death spirals. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 98PP of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists and audience members give their views on health-insurance topics including recent large claims experience, frequency and severity components of large claims trends, pricing, reserving, and the outlook for the future. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 79OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on external influences on health insurance including cost shifting, regulatory issues, and economic influences. From the Record of the SOA 1983 Vol. 9 No. 2

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Definition of good and sufficient provision for unpaid and actuarial liabilities as used in the NAIC model bill, Actuary and auditor relationships in documentation, reasonableness of results, materiality, margins, and disclosure, Techniques for estimating unpaid claim liabilities, Reverse testing, Considerations regarding incurred date coding in establishing claim reserves, Reserving methodologies for alternative funding products, Reserves for catastrophic claims, Measurement, evaluation, and adjustment for claim department backlogs, changes in claim submission patterns, and environmental changes, etc.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the effect of recent changes in tax structures on employee benefits - their value to employees, limitations on deductibility by employers, taxability to employees, and the direction of likely future changes. Will the continued emphasis on additional revenue generation result in a shift in employer emphasis toward additional cash compensation versus employee benefits?

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.