Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Experience on group and individual disability insurance has been historically sensitive to economic and demographic trends. In recent years, for example, the restructuring of the health care industry has caused major upheaval for many disability for many disability insurers. The panelists in this session speak in general terms about a variety of trends, such as the stock market, unemployment rates, interest rates, and the aging of the baby boom generation. They then turn specifically to the disability insurance market and speculate on how these trends may affect financial results.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss the opportunities and obstacles carriers face when integrating workers' compensation with short-term disability and/or long-term disability and/or medical insurance and whether integration can deliver positive results.

Description: Claim management is one of the most complex yet critical components of managing a block of disability business. This session discusses actuarial involvment in: · Claim settlements · Litigation · Performance management · Reserving assumptions From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 74

Description: This is discussion about the impact of mass marketing has on smaller companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No 59

Description: This is a discussion about the impact the 1965 OASDI changes will have on group long-term disability insurance and group medical insurance. Also discussed are the rates of growth of separate accounts and variable annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

Description: This presentation, session number 40OF, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the different available types of individual disability reinsurance, including excess coverage, quota share, stop loss, finite reinsurance, and financial reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on group long-term disability insurance.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers individual non-cancellable DI by three major writers who discuss their view of the viability of non-cancellable DI and some of the steps their companies have taken or are planning to take to address their concerns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This discussion at the San Francisco 1966 Regional Meetings covers three topics - Disability Benefits under Life or Health Insurance Policies, Changes in Individual Medical Expense Insurance in the Light of Medicare, and Optional Modes of Settlement.

Description: While discussing newer solutions to past problems, panelists in session 121 OF of the New York Annual Meeting consider under-penetrated disability markets such as the blue-collar market, the association market, and the integrated disability market. From the record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.