Description: This is the abstract for the paper entitled 'Pricing Long Term Insurance Contracts.' This paper considers several models describing the changes in the needs of the insured for care over time. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, VOL. 1.

Description: This article discusses the problems facing long-term care insurance. These include slowing sales, large premium increases and carriers exiting the market. The author suggests that the public needs to be better educated and that insurers need to find innovative ways to design products that are sustainable, yet sufficiently affordable to be attractive to a wide variety of buyers.

Description: Results of HIAA’s 1999 Study of LTCI Contract Reserves by William C. Weller from Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2.

Description: This paper presents a health status transition model developed as part of a larger LTC insurance pricing model. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities - The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: Managing an in-force block of long-term-care insurance policies requires attention to maintain value to policyholders and persistency of healthy lives. In this session panelists discuss emerging experience in the US and UK, new product development, health risk, pricing, underwriting, claims management, experience monitoring and techniques to help viability & profitability. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 82

Description: Mortality data and results for care home residents in England and Wales. Looking at numbers of death may indicate that there are fewer rate, but diving deep into various sub segments and looking at death rates, tells a different story.

Description: This article covers a panel discussion on “The Future of Long-Term Care” at the 1987 annual meeting.

Description: Article from The Actuary January 1993 Volume 27, No. 1 highlights task force on Valuation Methods for Long-Term Care Insurance

Description: This article provides a high-level overview of the 2015 Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance (ILTCI) Conference that was held March 22-25, 2015, at the The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The article contains a summary of all conference activities, including various networking and educational opportunities. The main objective of the conference is to provide an information sharing and collaborative environment for insurance professionals, regulatory authorities, insurance educational institutes, actuaries and other special groups with an interest in long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: Research report describing an analysis of experience transition rates between Long Term Care insurance claim settings over the course of a claim. Examples of such transitions are from an assisted care facility to home health care or from home health care to a nursing home.