Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss the various models for providing dental insurance and the pricing implications of each.

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: 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: 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 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 paper presents a surplus-ratio goal that is appropriate for group accident and health insurance and discusses growth, the sources of gains and losses, ways to improve operating gain and tracking results against expectations. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: Editor letter detailing article and encouraging authorship.

Description: This discussion looks at the changing needs for individual accident and sickness insurance, including coverage for older people [ages 65 and over]. The discussion seeks to answer: What changes in the scope of and market for individual accident and sickness insurance have taken place in recent years, and what revisions of policies and marketing procedures have been made or are indicated to meet changing needs? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This discussion looks at the approach companies are taking in developing dividend scales for participating accident and health policies as well as arguments for and against grading accident and sickness premiums. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: Tis is a discussion about many issues related to individual and family major medical insurance including deductibles and coinsurance, experience and trends, coverage for old age and substandard risks, guaranteed renewability for life, limitations for mental illness, and problems in underwriting and claims administration. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.