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: 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: Discusses types and methods of analysis of morbidity experience, reserves, and policy form drafting issues.

Description: This discussion is about the lapse rates experienced on group hospital and major medical expense coverages found in type of policyholder, size of group, industry, location, type of coverage, and degree of experience rating. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 pt 2

Description: This discussion is about problems of smaller companies entering the individual health insurance field. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion looks at the effects in Canada that Provincial Government Hospital Plans are having on insurance company plans providing hospital benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Discusses cost-benefit decision-making for acquiring electronic data-processing equipment and installation issues, ability of small companies to compete in pension trust arena, effectiveness of various agency compensation programs in stimulating sales and improving persistency, success of sales to substandard risks and rating methods, and pricing, reinsurance and experience with individual hospital and medical policies.

Description: This is a discussion about premiums and underwriting for individual health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion reviewed: A. Measures used by smaller companies to deal with below average policy persistency rates, B. The extent to which smaller companies issue policies with little to no retention for their own accounts, C. The extent to which new lines of insurance, such as accident and sickness, and changing distribution of business by line, plan, or age, have caused reconsideration of qualification bases for agency convention and honor awards.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to active life reserves for health insurance including the feasability of standardized reserves, surplus strain from minimum reserves, and active life reserves on cancelable business.