Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meetings in Atlanta and San Francisco. These discussions on pensions examined the advantages of funding deferred profit sharing plans through a life insurance company and the problems involved in final average retirement plans.

Description: Essay where payers desiring to optimize health gains per dollar spent should avoid “across the board” cost sharing, and instead implement a “value based” design that removes barriers/provides incentives to encourage desired behaviors for patients and providers.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers presented a case study on long-term-care gross premium valuations, GPV from an individual disability income perspective, and a case study for a medical GPV.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 33PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. Current information on experience trends in public and private long term disability [LTD] programs is essential for use in pricing and valuation work. In this session, the speakers, including representatives from the Social Security Administration and the Society of Actuaries Group Disability Experience Committee, discuss the recent morbidity experience that they have observed in their respective programs, the Social Security disability program, and the private LTD insurance market. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss current market dynamics, product features, claims adjudication, changes in underwriting requirements, and modeling. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This is a request for company participation in the first modern claim termination study for credit disability and credit involuntary unemployment insurance.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Washington, DC Annual Meeting discuss current issues and emerging trends in the marketplace for group long-term and short-term disability income.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: In this paper, a format for a two-dimensional actual-to-expected report based on terminations from disability claim status is presented. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: Lists literature which provides a good grounding in individual disability income: markets, product design, pricing, underwriting, claim management, reinsurance, morbidity experience, and reserves.