Description: Panel explores new disability products offered by writers of individual disability insurance and the ways in which these products connect with other types of insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss progress made in offering accident and sickness and hospitalization insurance benefits to those over 65, the physically impaired, to rural areas, and to lower income groups, and discuss methods to further extend benefits to those groups. They also discuss experience with major medical policies, and what insurance associations such as the Health Insurance Association of America, can do to collect morbidity data. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: In determining the apportionment of divisible surplus accruing with respect to a policy year's experience under a Group Accident and Health policy, the claims incurred in the policy year usually are the biggest single charge against the policyholder's premium. Consequently, it is important that the charge be an accurate portrayal of claims properly attributable to the policy year. This paper considers first the two basic ingredients of incurred claims, namely, paid claims [Section II] and claim reserves [Section III], and then considers how these two ingredients are used to determine incurred claims charged against a given group policyholder [Section IV]. A separate section [Section V] is included to discuss incurred claims on those group policies which cover so small a number of people that the case's own experience may fluctuate too widely to have real meaning. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: Discusses Vehicle Service Contracts and Gap Insurance.

Description: Summary of current state of A&H reinsurance business.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that supplements actuarial literature in which probability distributions have been proposed, by adding the log-folded-normal and log-folded-t families.

Description: Authors demonstrate the use of the claim reserve run-out test for the long-term A&H products. They present the method of this test and show a numerical illustration to depict interpretations of testing results.

Description: Panelists discuss pricing issues regarding supplemental products, which for this purpose, are defined as cancer, specified disease, student accident, and other special risk accident and health coverages. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: A listing of publications dealing with health insurance, public pensions and taxes 3 separate abstracts on 3 subjects, not related to each other

Description: International case study discussing life insurance in Ghana.