Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: A medical doctor discusses reducing aging issues through a wellness lifestyle.

Description: Discusses components of health-care inflation and their impact on health-insurance products. These components include: utilization trends, consumer price index [CPI] changes, regional variation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS and projecting extra mortality, implications of legislation & regulation, to what extent can AIDS deaths be identified, adequate pricing, limitations on underwriting and reinsurance implications. Includes examples from the UK and Australia. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the developments in the group insurance market in the 1980s including designing benefit plans with the employee as the focus, the cost to the corporate employer, and the group insurance underwriter's outlook.

Description: This 1981 session focused on cost containment programs for health care in Canada and the US. Topics included: 1. Possible changes - improved plan design 2. Ways to stimulate change - market forces vs. regulation 3. Untapped cost control-health education for employees - health lifestyles & disease prevention 4. Information sources From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the purpose, rationale and conclusions of the Committee for Accident and Health Valuation Principles. Discussion also covers the comments received and any modifications to their original draft report.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: This session is about group dental coverage, issues in benefit design, managed care [dental HMO & PPO] and market trends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.