Description: Panelists discuss a variety of recent developments in the group disability marketplace, including new risk-based-capital requirements, progress toward a new experience table, and the impact of war and recession. Also discussed was a new catastrophic-event LTD pool originated by John Hewitt & Associates [JHA]. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 81OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. This panelists discuss how have different individual disability lines of business [stock versus mutual, large versus small] have tried to improve their profitability. They discuss profitability expectations, key factors affecting profitability, recent changes to improve profitability and most difficult obstacles faced, and key management information systems [MIS] needs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

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: This 1978 session looked at the intersection of social and private insurance including: 1. Social insurance involvement in casualty and property coverages 2. Impact of social insurance and individual disability insurance 3. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans in the United States 4. Social insurance impact on private retirement plans and on individual insurance plans in Canada

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss a variety of ways in which nontraditional reinsurance has been used lately by individual disability income carriers. Such reinsurance transactions have included finite reinsurance, surplus relief and stop loss reinsurance.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Credit insurance, long the mainstay in this venue, is being supplanted by a vast array of products designed to meet the particular needs of borrowers without the encumbrance of regulation. This session discusses the activity in this segment of the insurance industry as well as concepts that might transfer to other related instruments.

Description: Panelists discuss their research about the correlations between changing economic and other external trends and long-term disability claims. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 33OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. Panelists discussed actions they have taken or that need to be taken to produce a profitable individual DI product line. Comparisons were made to historical practices and results.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on long term disability insurance examining the market, overinsurance problem, and new product designs.