Description: Discussion of various group life and health insurance topics, including: A. Amount of group dental insurance being written and benefit provisions currently being offered and financial experiences of the coverages to date. B. Problems of professional association groups? C. Current level of interest in group paid-up or group permanent.

Description: Answers to questions that have surfaced with regard to recent trends in the use of psychiatric medications, including relative effectiveness compared to prescribing patterns, drivers of prescribing patterns, classification and indications for recently publicized drugs, role of primary care providers, preventive use ofdementia medications, and new developments in the field.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: This is a panel discussion on health planning and cost containment. The session concentrates on the roles of the insurers and group policyholder in working towards improvement in the health care delivery system. This includes reducing utilization, the supply of services and prices for services.

Description: This session examines how technology, managed care and other changes are affecting health-care cost trends. The panel presents analyses of cost trends experienced over the last decade and contrasts those with historical trends. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 81

Description: This is a discussion on the probable effects of medical advances on longevity. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13 Pt. 2

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: The ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio Provisions

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. The presentation will be given by the direct managers of actual cases under the new types of disability products, including managed disability, 24-hour coverage, and voluntary disability. In addition, it will lead to the awareness of current developments for group LTD and STD.

Description: Discusses effect of allowing companies to sell health insurance policy in any state, if approved in one state, without requiring approval in any other state.