Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss changes in investment policy over the last ten years, direct placement financing, differences among companies by size, equity investments and real estate ownership. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This panel focuses on the current social and economic issues of health insurance within Canada and the U.S., with particular issues in the United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1967 Annual Meeting covers mortality issues including trends in longevity, factors affecting future mortality rates, and projection methods.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings focuses group accident and health insurance. Issues discussed include premium structures, projecting experience and claims experience due to new coverage limitations.

Description: This is a discussion about recent developments in Medicare in the United States and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 53 AB

Description: This is a discussion on the probable effects of medical advances on longevity. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion is about comprehensice medical insurance and excess major medical coverage and includes specific measures taken to reduce claim experience, outlook for smaller groups, and claim costs of specific provisions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion focuses on group insurance, the experience under industry-wide group policies, problems in the writing of small groups, the trend of hospital and surgical expense claim ratios, experiments providing medical expense benefits for pensioners, and examines the progress made in developing catastrophe coverages.