Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a U.S. Individual Disability Income Persistency Study. The report, authored by Cathy Ho and Steve Elek, presents the results of a study of individual disability income (“IDI”) lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2000 and 2007. This is the first report in a two-part series that will present results of a study conducted jointly by LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and based on data provided by 12 individual disability income insurance writers.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussion is about the economy and its impact on Group Long Term Disability profits. Also addressed were the current LTD market environment, legislative changes, new product development, and cash flow testing.

Description: Presenters in this session 6PD of the New York Annual Meeting share visions of the future for disability insurance with respect to markets, risks, products, profitability, and outline viable strategies for success. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This discussion at the San Francisco 1966 Regional Meetings covers three topics - Disability Benefits under Life or Health Insurance Policies, Changes in Individual Medical Expense Insurance in the Light of Medicare, and Optional Modes of Settlement.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about individual disability income Topics included: 1. Return of profitability. 2. Smaller industry. 3. Underwriting problems. 4. Claim problems.

Description: This presentation from Session 6PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting provides a comprehensive overview of today's disability insurance industry for group and individual disability insurers. Panelists address issues such as financial experience, mergers and acquisitions, changing products, the role of reinsurance, and growth potential. In addition, this session includes historical perspective on the disability insurance industry and a glimpse of what may lie ahead. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. In this session the sustainability of the historic profitability of group long-term disability was discussed along with the effects of benefit liberalizations, declining interest rates, and economic conditions on profitability.

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: This article summarizes a 2010 disability research project that explored offsets of benefits for group long-term disability plans.

Description: This paper presents and analyzes data on disability and disability termination rates from group waiver of premium, group disability income, individual loss-of-time business and the OASDI system. The paper also presents the differences in disability termination rates between male and female and the possible causes. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.