Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting discusses how the employer stop-loss market has experienced turbulence in recent years. Panelists discuss their views on this market, including market size and growth, whether or not pricing is softening, claim cost trends and underwriting. Session 3PD.

Description: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1992 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses three tax issues from the Deficit Reducation Act - DEFRA including the cost-of-living adjustment - COLA benefit in the disabled life reserve calculation, recognizing reinsurance in the tax reserve calculation and deferred and uncollected premium reserve adjustments in health insurance. It also covers recent reinsurance developments.

Description: This session 35PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting addresses the role financial reinsurance has taken in solving two very current issues: reinsuring closed blocks from demutualized companies and funding XXX reserves. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 35PD.

Description: A panel of reinsurers at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discusses recent issues surrounding quota share reinsurance, including limits in the capital market, XXX reserves, letter of credit funding and costs, recapture provisions and arbitration.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss medical excess coverage which is provided to hospitals and/or physician groups to reimburse such groups for benefits in excess of a deductible. This coverage typically involves situations where providers are taking capitation.

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: In session 133 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists explore the impact of pricing products from the perspective of the direct writing company and their reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about a number of issues relating to catastrophe exposure, including: 1, Techniques for measuring exposure to catastrophes and the problems of aggregation. 2. How to calculate and monitor losses. 3. The use of futures contracts as a means of spreading the risk.

Description: Do you wish that you could join in when your friends talk about combined coinsurance/modified coinsurance? Do you feel out of place at parties when the discussion turns to the advantages of quota share versus excess arrangements? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1. From session 13TS of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.