Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting covers individual disability including the definition of disability, occupational definitions, replacement ratios, social insurance offsets and contract provisions. It also reviews trends in product design and underwriting.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the current developments related to U.S. Social Security and the Canadian governmental disability programs and their impact on today's disability insurance market, financial underwriting for group and individual disability income products and new disability experience and valuation tables. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: A contingency table is a set of counts or frequencies obtained by classifying observations in two or more different ways. Log-linear analysis is applied to disability terminations, linking them to variables such as sex, age, region and maximum benefit period. Application to risk classification and underwriting are outlines.

Description: While discussing newer solutions to past problems, panelists in session 121 OF of the New York Annual Meeting consider under-penetrated disability markets such as the blue-collar market, the association market, and the integrated disability market. From the record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Panel session exploring a variety of issues connected to long-term disability reserve buyouts, including: · Advantages and risks for buyers and sellers · Use of appropriate reserving assumptions · Possible financial structures for a buyout

Description: This session addresses buying or selling a block of long-term disability or life waiver claims: assumptions used to value these blocks, how life waiver business differs from long-term disability business, and possible structures for a deal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 65

Description: This session discusses current short-term disability benefits, recent market trends, pricing and risk management issues. Includes a discussion on voluntary benefits, self-funding and packaging with long-term disability. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 93

Description: Panelists discuss a variety of recent developments in the group disability marketplace, including new risk-based-capital requirements, progress toward a new experience table, and the impact of war and recession. Also discussed was a new catastrophic-event LTD pool originated by John Hewitt & Associates [JHA]. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 81OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This article highlights what makes disabled people return to work and gives examples of how flexible claims services can operate in a cost efficient manner.

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston. The topics covered included: experience rating problems, group life problems, Long Term Disability issues, Association Group, and utilization of HMOs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.