Description: Data on morbidity, loss ratios, actual-to-expected continuance rates, and lapse rates for disability insurance, and discussion of the implications with respect to legislation, product design, pricing, underwriting, and marketing. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: Panel discussion on recent developments in individual disability insurance, including morbidity trends, reserving assumptions and variations, marketing and underwriting trends and trends in claims practices. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York.

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.

Description: Panelists discuss consumer-driven health plans [CDHPs]. Topics include pricing, large employer perspectives, and the overall impact on the marketplace. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 95

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at redirecting the traditional role of the actuary into new areas such as working with doctors to deal with medical management issues, dealing and negotiating with providers and how to help the company develop a provider payment strategy. Employers negotiating directly with providers is also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the small and mini-group market including trends in plan design, underwriting strategies, approaches to marketing compensation and claim cost containment strategies. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: This session discussion is about managed mental health, substance abuse, prescription drug, and vision benefits. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This session discussion is about hospital strategies in delivering and financing care, physician reaction to current market, physician strategies in delivering and financing care, and provider reaction to managed care programs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1987 Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about employer mandates, state regulations [retirement communities & HMOs, NAIC rate regulation exposure draft ], relations with regulators and relations with health care providers. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.