Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about underwriting of Long-Term Care. Topics discussed: 1. Certain aspects of the underwriting process. 2. Different generic types of underwriting. 3. Evaluating results and taking action. 4. Initial intercompany insured lives claim results.

Description: Part 2 of a two part article on Long-Term Care Insurance and suitability between a recommended product and the client's. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, October 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: Despite a clear need and demographics which should be favorable to LTCI growth, the market remains stalled due to lack of understanding on the consumer side, and uncertainty on carriers' side. The 3 key risk areas for carriers are morbidity, terminations, and investment earnings. Financial market innovations which can address these include: repackaging risks as derivative securities, interest rate swaps and options, and inflation swaps.

Description: Three long-term care claimants lead very full lives, thanks to making the most of their employer-sponsored group long-term care insurance coverage, in terms of using it through intelligent and conservative benefit utilization.

Description: Under the new long term care model regulation, initial filing requirements include a statement regarding underwriting practices, which makes an actuary's awareness of underwriting techniques even more important. This session discusses underwriting tools and strategies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 112OF

Description: Panelists provide an overview of long-term-care insurance. They present basic information relating to how the product works, unique pricing and risk considerations, marketing, and reserve and capital requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 48

Description: This article describes how Long-Term Care riders attached to Life Insurance policies provide real insurance value at a reasonable cost and allow life insurance companies to compete on a basis other than cost.

Description: Discusses use of credibility theory with respect to LTCi. Considers the various credibility methods and points to resources for more in-depth investigation.

Description: Panelelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting discuss risk management for long-term care insurance, the design of long-term care morbidity studies, LTC morbidity trends, and the impact of morbidity on plan design.

Description: HR Magazine article quoting Jim Glickman talking about long-term care. Discusses increasing popularity of long term care as an employee benefit and discusses carrier and plan selection.