Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: Panelists provide their perspectives on current issues in the dental market, such as: · Product development · Experience trends · Competitive marketplace · Future outlook From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 65

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about heath insurance issues affecting the 25-250 life group market including marketing, rating, reinsurance, and products.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

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: This is a panel discussion session on the developments in the group insurance market in the 1980s including designing benefit plans with the employee as the focus, the cost to the corporate employer, and the group insurance underwriter's outlook.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the purpose, rationale and conclusions of the Committee for Accident and Health Valuation Principles. Discussion also covers the comments received and any modifications to their original draft report.

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.