Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management actuary and the product management process. Topics discussed : 1. The monitoring of the environment and how that monitoring leads to the generation of ideas. 2. Consideration of how those ideas are affected by distribution, marketing, and organizational issues. 3. The setting of assumptions. 4. How to get different areas of your company to work together, and ways to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. 5. How to manage business once your company places it on the books.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussion is about FAS 106 valuations, issues, assumptions, data, per capita claims before versus after age 65 and transition strategies. Topics addressed: 1. Issues and assumptions. 2. Data. 3. Per capita claim cost before versus after age 65. 4. Transition strategies.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting debate the pros and cons of Medical Savings Accounts [MSA]. Viewpoints on the effectiveness of MSAs, expected changes in medical consumer behavior, anticipated cost savings, and other topics are discussed.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discusses issues associated with the development of HMO plans for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting outlines the proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice ASOP with respect to small-group, reform rate certifications and the feedback from Society members regarding the proposal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discusses how ratings and rating agencies affect health care insurance and related organizations. Advice is offered on maintaining a good relationship with rating services.

Description: Presenters discuss the differences between patient treatment protocols and length-of-stay guidelines, and some of the issues that payers confronted as the protocols were implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss employers' perspective of defining strategies to identify best-in-market opportunities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1980 Spring Meeting. Discusses recent developments related to health insurance reserves, the concepts included in several recent papers and committee reports on this topic, and the status of proposed model valuation legislation.