Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Panelists speculate how the health care delivery system will change over the next 30 years and the effect these changes will have on baby boomer needs and on future long-term-care 'LTC' policies.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss current Long Term Care Insurance issues, including plan designs and other activities in the market, and state and federal regulatory and legislative activities.

Description: This session discusses continuing care retirement communities. What opportunities exist? What role does the actuary play? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session presents techniques and tools for valuing long-term-care insurance for mergers and acquisitions, drivers behind M&A activity in this market, the appraisal process. Specific situations are discussed.

Description: Panel session on the challenge that many insurers face as they try to grow their long-term-care insurance business, while simultaneously ensuring analysts and shareholders that earnings targets will be met.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16

Description: Discussion of LTC insurance product developments being spurred by recent demographic and regulatory trends, especially combination products such as LTC benefits with disability income, annuities, and life insurance. Several viable product styles are considered, along with the pros and cons of each.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the impact of underwriting and risk classification on Long Term Care pricing. The effect of HIPAA is also discussed.

Description: The panel demonstrates a technique that can help set confidence intervals regarding future rate increases used to satisfy the NAIC rate stabilization model. Specific topics include creating a stochastic model, deciding which variables are deterministic vs. stochastic, developing probability distributions for the stochastic variables, running the model and evaluating the reasonableness of results. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 21

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.