Description: This discussion looks at the effects in Canada that Provincial Government Hospital Plans are having on insurance company plans providing hospital benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Traditional methods of addressing reserves and liabilities have failed to cope with the problems of escalating claim costs, frequent rate increases, and different opinions as to what liabilities should be recognized. This paper reexamines these issues, discusses shortcomings of current methods and proposes a new approach to the total subject. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: This discussion at the San Francisco 1966 Regional Meetings covers three topics - Disability Benefits under Life or Health Insurance Policies, Changes in Individual Medical Expense Insurance in the Light of Medicare, and Optional Modes of Settlement.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to active life reserves for health insurance including the feasability of standardized reserves, surplus strain from minimum reserves, and active life reserves on cancelable business.

Description: This paper covers two topics of discussion within the insurance field: Medical Expense Insurance and Underwriting. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Gross Premiums for Individual and Family Major Medical Expense Insurance by Morton D. Miller. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This discussion reviewed: A. Measures used by smaller companies to deal with below average policy persistency rates, B. The extent to which smaller companies issue policies with little to no retention for their own accounts, C. The extent to which new lines of insurance, such as accident and sickness, and changing distribution of business by line, plan, or age, have caused reconsideration of qualification bases for agency convention and honor awards.

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meetings, Jacksonville and Chicago. This is a discussion about statutory reporting issues surrounding group term and group accident and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2.

Description: This is a discussion about premiums and underwriting for individual health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This paper examines the details of group major-medical expense insurance, a disability coverage, also labeled as catastrophe coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.