Description: Discussion of various group life and health insurance topics, including: A. Amount of group dental insurance being written and benefit provisions currently being offered and financial experiences of the coverages to date. B. Problems of professional association groups? C. Current level of interest in group paid-up or group permanent.

Description: This discussion on group insurance reviews approaches companies have adopted for selling, underwriting and administering group coverages for small employer groups. Considerations and techniques involved in establishing the larger maximum amounts of group life offered by many companies are also examined. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: The scope of nontraditional marketing, as viewed by the Nontraditional Marketing Section of the Society, continues to expand. Originally, it encompassed direct response, credit insurance, and payroll deduction. Recent emphasis has added marketing through through financial institutionsand through pre-need funeral plans. This literature guide provides the user with a summary of representative sources for marketing and product development information.

Description: Panelists discuss the implications of 9 / 11 , such as disaster planning for business operations, geographic concentrations of risk, terrorism clauses, carrier response, legislative changes that may help carriers limit risk, accidental death-only programs, effects on health and disability costs, changes in practices and changes in claim incurrence and payments patterns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 128

Description: This session is from the 1976 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Toronto in October. The presenters cover the following Group Insurance topics: Survivor Income Group Life Insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Insurance, and new products and development.

Description: From the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Houston. Discussion of how the insurance industries in several countries have dealt with high levels of inflation with respect to the development and marketing of insurance products. Also discussed: I. the overall business and economic environment 2. the taxation structure of insurance companies 3. the availability of suitable investments 4. the insurance regulatory climate and 5. the structure of worldwide capital markets Possible applications to U.S. insurance in the 1980's were explored.

Description: WeChat is gradually becoming the main force of insurance online marketing for insurance products in China.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: This discussion on multiple lines looks at problems facing a small company on expanding its operations into one or more of the following fields: Group Life Insurance, Individual accident and health insurance, Group accident and health insurance, and pension trust business.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 54PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. This session covers the impact of segmentation and underwriting on expected mortality and morbidity. Panelists discuss the importance of data mining and customer selection on ultimate experience, setting up direct marketing applications with the right type of questions to maximize responses but limit risk, the use of prescription drugs and other databases, and industry practices for obtaining customer information. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.