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.

Description: Update on LTC Section activities and other issues from the perspective of a Society of Actuaries' staff actuary.

Description: New products should address having acceptable carrier risks and at the same time enhance the product’s value to consumers to pave the way for broader acceptance.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting present key findings of a recently released inter-company study of long term care experience.

Description: This article describes how Long-Term Care riders attached to Life Insurance policies provide real insurance value at a reasonable cost and allow life insurance companies to compete on a basis other than cost.

Description: A discussion of tail-design LTC riders for annuities and how contract cash values are offset by reductions to the annuity contract. LTC benefits, and how they relate to the annuity contracts, are also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews long-term care LTC products. Discussion topics include product design, pricing administration, regulation, marketing and AARP. From the Record of the Society of Acturaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Article on the history of the Long Term Care Discussion Group, a Washington DC-based venue for discussing long-term care and related issues for over 20 years.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: This article focuses on strategies that long term care insurance companies are using today to invest assets more profitably and manage risks more effectively to help ensure that they can meet their obligations and move forward in an uncertain market.