Description: This panel discussion session focuses on filling the gaps in US health insurance including the identification of the uninsured & underinsured and proposed bills - catastrophic insurance, the Kennedy bill & NAICs Building Blocks proposal. 1979 Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: This session discusses activities of the AAA with respect to financial reporting and actuarial opinions, related emerging legislation [Sarbanes-Oxley], FAS 141 & 142 [business combinations], and liability determination. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 25

Description: This session is about appraisals of blocks of health business: issues to consider, building a model, setting assumptions and ASB requirements. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: This 1991 panel discussion considers several valuation issues from the point of view of an actuary of an insurance Company, a Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan, and a Health Maintenance Organization [HMO]. The issues discussed include basic methodology, source of data/coding conventions, extended benefit provision, loss adjustment expense, provider arrangements, employer refund arrangements and cash flow testing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This session discussion is about the effect of solvency concerns on health insurers: NAIC proposed risk-based capital formulas, typical return on equity for health business, rating agency formulas and volatility measures for loss ratios. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS and projecting extra mortality, implications of legislation & regulation, to what extent can AIDS deaths be identified, adequate pricing, limitations on underwriting and reinsurance implications. Includes examples from the UK and Australia. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about corporate benefit function in a multinational corporation, design considerations in overseas programs, financing of non-North American benefit programs, special problems, recent significant legislative developments outside North America.

Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: This session focused on Health Insurance Minimum Loss Ratio Regulation. Topics include: 1. The NAIC minimum loss ratio guidelines. 2. Loss ratios viewed from the regulatory side. 3. Recent developments in certain states. From Record of Society of Actuaries, 1981 Vol. 7, No. 3.