Description: GAAP's elimination of gross profit as a basis for amortization of deferred acquisition costs enables the accounting for reinsurance of universal life contracts to better reflect the economic protection provided by reinsurance. This article takes a fresh look at the standards of accounting for universal life contracts and for reinsurance, then puts them together to find the techniques that best account for that protection.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 57

Description: This report, as well as the previous three, is based on data gathered for policies issued back to 1984. Data in this report has been combined and analyzed from 20 organizations 24 insurers that provided information to further the public and private knowledge of long-term care insurance.

Description: Since detailed claim information is not readily available to the Committee on Group Mortality and Morbidity on an annual basis, a special investigation of group hospital expense experience has been conducted. That investigation is summarized in this paper, and covers plan descriptions, morbidity and cost data, and continuation tables.

Description: This 1977 session discusses management of the actuarial resource, primarily in Life Insurance Companies. It includes questions such as: 1. What is an Actuary and What is his Function in a Life Insurance Company? 2. Is there a place for the highly skilled technician who does not care to manage people?

Description: This paper proposes a model for the incurred but not reported - IBNR- claims of an insurance company. This model will be fit to third party automobile bodily injury claims for which the months and years of occurrence of the accident are available. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990 VOL. 1

Description: This session will cover the definition of a risk-taking health entity, the kinds of risk and ways to measure it. Included is an update from the Risk-based Capital Task Force. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: This SOA report provides an overview and analysis of the mortality models, theories and trends contained in the papers presented at the past four international Living to 100 symposia.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: This paper explores the legislation of New York 65, the intent of which was to offer health benefits to persons age 65 and over without health examination or other evidence of insurability. From TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, 1962 VOL. 14, PT. 1 NO. 40.