Description: NAIC Actuarial Certification requirements for long-term care insurance and ASOP 18, pricing issues. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2001, Issue No. 4.

Description: The Role of Actuaries in Non-Traditional Long-Term Care InsuranceMedicare, Medicaid, PACE & Wisconsin's Family Care program. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: The goals of the first Annual LTC Operations and Technology Benchmark Survey were to develop time and cost benchmarks for LTC operations, identify the most pressing operations and technology issues, and gain insight into the technologies that are being used to administer long-term care business.

Description: This article addresses the complexities and practicalities of constructing a continuance curve from long-term care LTC claims data.

Description: Asset Adequacy Analysis for the Long-Term Care Product: A Case Study by Amy Pahl from Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2004, Issue No. 13.

Description: The long-term care insurance industry today faces unprecedented opportunities for growth. As the oldest baby boomers approach age 65, Medicaid eligibility standards continue to become more restrictive; state publicprivate partnership programs proliferate throughout the country; and combination products become more appealing to consumers in light of the tax code changes in the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Description: Preview of the December 2007 issue of the LTC Section news, including articles on individual claims, retrospective reserve testing, population health management, Alzheimers, psychiatric medication, and the latest LTC Experience Committee report.

Description: Reflections from the past year as chair of the LTC Section Council.

Description: The LTC insurance sector faces a crisis of credibility due to recent company failures. Market evidence indicates reduced confidence in the reserve sufficiency of companies with large legacy LTC exposures. Disclosures show the persistence of problematic actuarial and investment return assumptions. Institutional backstops exist but vary by jurisdiction and have elements which can exacerbate rather than ameliorate problems. Fortunately, LTC liabilities accrue over long time periods. An industry supported incentive structure can be conceived that would establish stronger standards and encourage greater reserving in exchange for a more reliable and rational backstop.