Description: This is a panel discussion session on individual health insurance including regulations and the considerations to guide decisions as to product portfolio marketing objectives and distribution systems.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: This paper updates the predecessor 1971 Disability Table, takes into account major changes in the reported experience of the past decade, and corrects defects in the previous table's calculation of termination rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This discussion is about major problems facing the smaller company on entering the field of individual health insurance. Also discussed are using morbidity studies to calculate gross premiums. From Transcations of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion is about the future of non-cancellable disability income.

Description: This open forum, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., discussed the future of traditional Society of Actuaries meetings. Topics discussed included: 1. What do Society meetings offer? 2. What else could they offer? 3. What is offered elsewhere in my specialty? 4. How could Society of Actuaries meetings be made more meaningful? A discussion of the special interest sections and seminars on special interest topics was also discussed.

Description: This paper describes a modified development method for analyzing claims experience and calculating claim reserves and liabilities on short-term health insurance benefits. It identifies many of the influences on claim development and discusses various ways to recognize them. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

Description: The primary purpose of this paper is to present an alternative method of determining the profitability of the premium for a return of premium benefit through the use of a limited simulation program. Also discussed are necessary reserves for a return of premium benefit. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973, Vol. 25, Pt. 1, No. 73.

Description: This session focused on Health Insurance Minimum Loss Ratio Regulation. Topics include: 1. The NAIC minimum loss ratio guidelines. 2. Loss ratios viewed from the regulatory side. 3. Recent developments in certain states. From Record of Society of Actuaries, 1981 Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: This paper examines the adjustment of premiums under guaranteed renewable health insurance policies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.