Description: This session discussion is about what factors affect the small employer's choice of programs, how may the small employer capitalize on recent developments in managed health care, what problems do insurance companies have in marketing and communicating their plans to small employers, are partially self-insured benefits a threat or an opportunity for carriers in this market. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses costs, cost measurement and control, how target cost levels are established, and the cost/benefit perceptions of employers.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about types of products involved, accounting alternatives, federal income tax considerations, status of FASB proposal, requirements of SEC, and asset/liability matching requirements of regulators.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses regulations - unisex, privacy and anti-discrimination - lifestyle impact and reinsurance environment.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about how capital should be measured, cash flow based surplus, what performance measures are reliable, return on equity, book gains, terminal funds, how much surplus is needed, business planning for future capital needs, capital restructuring, how should multiple risks be combined and qualitative issues versus numbers as they relate to future growth.

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the state-of-the-art in packaged software, the requirements of such systems, and current and future health care developments that must be addressed.

Description: People who have been there discuss feeling good about yourself in a time of change, re-organization, mandatory job changes, voluntary job changes, new responsibilities, and effects on the family. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Discusses some of the industry dynamics driving change in the industry distribution and compensation systems, the general-agency/career-agent system at MassMutual, the branch-manager and PPGA-like systems at Penn Mutual, and New York's recent letter on agent-owned reinsurance companies. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: The optimal degree of integration and/or coordination of these two functions is examined by presentation of diverse opinions and actual experiences. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.