Description: Panelists discuss current and future developments in health insurance on the Internet and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act from the perspective of providers, insurers, employers and customers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 131

Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16

Description: This is the sixth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 35 insurers. Available data was collected on policies issued between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2007. Claims incurred on policies during this same timeframe were followed from claim inception through the earlier of claim termination or June 30, 2008.

Description: This article incorporates the NAIC long-term care insurance model regulation to discuss the appropriateness of rate increases by monitoring emerging experience to manage the risk. This includes experience analysis issues, maximum rate increase calculations, business considerations and valuation issues. From Long-Term Care, December 2003, Issue 10

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. The chairperson and members of the SOA LTC Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force discussed the major conclusions and decisions found in the exposure draft of the Society's Task Force for LTC Insurance Valuation Methods.

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims using currently available software to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session on Long Term Care Insurance provided an update on the Society's Task Force on Valuation Methods for Long-Term Care Insurance, methods and assumptions that are being used for policies, premiums, and reserves on long-term care policies, and the regulatory environment.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries' Joint Risk Management Section and the Joint Risk Management Research Committee are pleased to make available a new report on the application of ERM. Authored by Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, Sim Segal, Michael Wolfson and Heidi Walsh, the report provides a novel demonstration on how ERM can be applied to serve the Canadian public by informing decision makers on the risks facing the current and future delivery of long-term care.

Description: This session discussion is about nonforfeiture values for long-term care: valuation of different approaches [cash surrender value, return of premium, reduced paid-up, extended term, shortened benefit period], sensitivity testing, implications for marketing and regulatory status. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: This final report is a SOA Task Force response to a NAIC request to develop valuation recommendations for long-term care insurance. Two basic sets of tables are provided: one for institutional benefits [nursing home] and one for noninstitutional benefits [home health care]. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.