Description: This session discussion is about overview of current trend experience, techniques of applying trends in rating, risk aspects of different trending methods, and implications of trend cycles for surplus requirements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This session is about President Clinton's health care reform proposal. Topics discussed include: federal debate & the actuarial role, cost estimates, and actuarial issues contained in the proposal. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4A.

Description: Discusses reserve valuation for long-term-care insurance [LTCI]. Includes the NAIC model law, federal tax issues, Valuation Actuary standards, cash-flow testing, and how a current company has gone about setting up its active and claim reserves. Session 4 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists discuss the various styles of underwriting being used in both the individual and the group long-term-care markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. The panel presents the status of recent legislative proposals and current election debates, and then focuses more attention on the potential longer-term directions for the health-care system.

Description: This session discusses how managed care affects the cost and pricing of health care. Included is a discussion of inadequate development and use of practice standards practicing differently for patients covered by different insurers and the malpractice crisis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 59

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses managing ambulatory care [i.e. outpatient], physician visit frequency, multiple testing, defensive medicine and how physicians function in a manged care environment.

Description: This session about long-term-care will cover the current status of reinsurance for this marketplace in three ways: traditional accident and health, turnkey programs and assumptive reinsurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers problems and considerations for the valuation actuary with long term care insurance, NAIC risk based capital RBC requirements and their impact on LTC, the growth of LTC, cash flow testing, GAAP analysis of LTC and LTC claim reserve experiences.

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.