Description: This session discussion is health databases, outcomes research, treatment protocol development, ambulatory utilization, SOA Experience Committee activities, and responding to employer demands for data. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the latest developments in underwriting and their potential impact on mortality, and the most recent mortality statistics.

Description: Panelists discuss recent trends in individual life mortality experience, especially for preferred risks, and the impact of agent selection and underwriting exceptions on a company's mortality results. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about the role of data analysis in decision making, HIAA surveys, National Center for Health Statistics [surveys on Ambulatory Medical Care, Hospital Discharge and Nursing Homes], and SOA experience data collection efforts. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the proposed new valuation table and how it affects future product development and design.

Description: Data on morbidity, loss ratios, actual-to-expected continuance rates, and lapse rates for disability insurance, and discussion of the implications with respect to legislation, product design, pricing, underwriting, and marketing. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: Panel discussion on recent developments in individual disability insurance, including morbidity trends, reserving assumptions and variations, marketing and underwriting trends and trends in claims practices. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reversion rates and mortality on non-reverted lives, mortality experience versus mortality tables, select and ultimate term insurance products and the developing experience for term insurance.

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: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?