Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss recent developments in expanding major medical expense coverage under individual policies and group policies, and progress made in providing hospital, surgical and medical expense coverage beyond age 65. Guaranteed renewability and substandard issues are discussed.

Description: Tis is a discussion about many issues related to individual and family major medical insurance including deductibles and coinsurance, experience and trends, coverage for old age and substandard risks, guaranteed renewability for life, limitations for mental illness, and problems in underwriting and claims administration. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This is the report to the Society of Actuaries by its Executive Director, Charles B. H. Watson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol. 22, Pt. 1, No. 64.

Description: This is a discussion of the Committe on the Future Course of the Society of Actuaries focused on the SOA's ability to express public statements of opinion.

Description: This discussion on accident and sickness insurance includes establishing retention limits for disability insurance and restricting the renewability of hospital-medical contracts due to deteriorating health. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This document records the discussion on the possibility of a life insurance company entering the accident and sickness field, sources for morbidity experience for rate making, methods for determining total claim reserve and to what extent are medical expense items are insurable.

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Gary Corbett. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 1.

Description: This is a discussion about how actuaries have become more and more involved in work outside what may be considered traditional actuarial functions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Regional Spring Meeting held in Omaha, NE on April 2-3, 1959. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29AB.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.