Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: Panelists discuss issues arising from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session talks about the Long-Term Care Insurance Valuation Task Force report.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Many long-term-care insurers are outsourcing administrative functions to management organizations. The panelists discuss the reasons for this outsourcing, the functions that can be outsourced, financial incentives for vendors, criteria for selecting a vendor, monitoring performance and other aspects of the business relationship.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews long-term care LTC products. Discussion topics include product design, pricing administration, regulation, marketing and AARP. From the Record of the Society of Acturaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss claims management issues for long term care insurance.

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: Morbidity improvement has been a hot topic in the LTC market in the past year. This session will provide an update of studies performed in the industry to review historical data for morbidity improvement and considerations that actuaries should take when determining what level of morbidity improvement to include in their best estimate assumptions.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting explains the federal group long term care program and addresses the effect it has had on group plan designs, new entrants into the market, and sales of individual long term care insurance.

Description: Disability insurers are showing an increasing interest in benefits that tie closely to long-term care. Several insurers have developed disability products that offer additional disability benefits based on the loss of activities of daily living, while others offer options to convert disability policies into long-term care policies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.