Description: This session is about long-term care and effective tax rate on LTC insurance, capital needs, rate guarantees and asset/liability scenarios. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists discuss the latest trends in long-term-care product design and pricing issues. Topics include ASOP 18, combination disability products, morbidity & lapse assumptions, state regulations and underwriting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 session dealt with individual accident and health rate regulation issues. Topics included the history of regulations and their primary purpose or need. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: The presenters will explore the long-term care insurance product and its impact on potential transactions. Discuss why the inherent risks of this product create challenges for buyers and sellers in this market.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the speaker provided an overview of derivatives including: 1. Definition. 2. Uses. 3. Types of risks - market, credit, legal, and systems. 4. Risk management. 5. US regulatory guidelines and developments.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting discuss pricing issues and business risks associated with life, annuity, medical expense and disability income insurance products and compare them to long-term care [LTC].

Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: The presenters will provide insights into fraud and abuse risk in the health insurance industry, including an examination of traditional and predictive modeling techniques for both prevention and detection. Emphasis will be placed on current and emerging risks. Canadian examples and perspectives will be offered, but the applications for attendees to use in practice are non-nation specific.

Description: The primary focus of this 1997 presentation from the 32nd Actuarial Research Conference is the adaptation of the representative scenario method such that the distribution of the primary rates used for product pricing, are consistent, regardless of the initial random number seed. A preliminary question is how many stochastically generated scenarios are required for consistency. This presentation looks at the implications of: the use of antithetic random normal deviates upon the scenario process, ways of modifying the candidate list, and the choice function within the representative scenario process.