Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

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: 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: Panelists discuss pricing considerations on long-term care inforce contracts including: · State & NAIC regulation on premium rate changes · Challenges in implementing premium changes · Product design features like rate guarantees and limited-pay contracts From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 6

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 discuss emerging valuation-actuary-related issues, including: [1] for long-term-care insurance [LTCI], reserves, risk-based capital [RBC], and new experience forms, [2] for Medicare Part D, several potential future changes, and [3] for health insurance in general, the new Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 85 [SSAP 85] and existing SSAP 84, and current activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] regarding a definition of 'insurance.' Session 27PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation from Session 87PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting is about managing long-term-care persistency risk. The panelists comment on: 1. findings from the SOA 1995 Long-Term-Care Experience Report, 2. pricing implications, and 3. steps taken to affect persistency results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss the various styles of underwriting being used in both the individual and the group long-term-care markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: With the creation of 'qualified' long-term-care plans behind us, companies now have additional information regarding interpretations from the Treasury Department, regulations and directives from insurance departments, and feedback from the consumer. This presentation from Session 128PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting looks at what has been learned in the past two years about long-term care insurance and what state and federal regulatory changes may be on the horizon. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.