Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the impact of underwriting and risk classification on Long Term Care pricing. The effect of HIPAA is also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers long term care and health related issues for valuation, an update from the Risk-Based Capital Task Force of the Academy on developing a risk-based capital formula for health coverages, an overview of the health practice notes.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about various aspects of long term care insurance from the viewpoints of an agent, a regulator and an investor.

Description: Morbidity improvement has been a hot topic in the LTC market in the past year. This session will provide an update of studies performed in the industry to review historical data for morbidity improvement and considerations that actuaries should take when determining what level of morbidity improvement to include in their best estimate assumptions.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discusses current developments in the market for long-term-care insurance including underwriting, regulatory activity, pricing and plan design.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss long-term care insurance from various viewpoints, including the consumer’s desires, needs, knowledge, and interests, intermediaries' role in defining benefits, cost of benefits such as inflation protection and nonforfeiture, financial ability to purchase, buying attitudes of the public for coverage, and trade-offs between price and features. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.