Description: Report to give actuaries practical information and guidance on LTD claim credibility for case level pricing and underwriting. Stage 2 of the GLTD Credibility Study, this analysis was expanded using the industry data gathered during Stage 1.

Description: Preface for the Group Weekly Indemnity study.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. This report should be viewed as a supplement to the Individual Life Report. Many of the issues and conclusions in the Individual Life Report are equally applicable to individual disability insurance and are therefore not discussed herein. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: Lists literature which provides a good grounding in individual disability income: markets, product design, pricing, underwriting, claim management, reinsurance, morbidity experience, and reserves.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel explored ways in which disability insurance underwriting guidelines must be closely linked to product design and sales methods. Panelists discussed a number of specific issues, including emerging illnesses, the protective value of various testing procedures, the role of financial underwriting, and the links between product, price, and underwriting.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 Dallas Regional Meeting is about current issues in individual disability income market, including underwriting, claim control, product design, sales tactic, management reports, reinsurance and closed block strategies.

Description: This aticle discusses LTD claims experience and the effects of Social Security offsets and pre-existing clauses.

Description: The session discussion is valuation and reserving issues with regards to group medical - including HMOs, and individual medical - including disability and long-term care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: The panelists in this session discuss current industry practices and new considerations on many items of interest to LTD valuation actuaries. Topics include an update on the Group LTD Experience Study, assumptions and methodology for integration provisions, reserve margin illustrations using asset share models, and reserve run out analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 54

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.