Description: This session provides an overview of industry approaches to valuing the liabilities of nontraditional health products such as specific and employer stop loss, provider excess and critical illness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 117

Description: This session will cover the definition of a risk-taking health entity, the kinds of risk and ways to measure it. Included is an update from the Risk-based Capital Task Force. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: This is a transcript of a 1982 meeting of the Health Section. Includes presentation and discussion of three papers: a. Cumulative Anti-selection Theory by William F. Bluhm b. Regulatory Monitoring of Individual Health Insurance Policy Experience by John B. Cummings c. Medical Care and Services in Canada by Frank G. Reynolds From Record Vol. 8, No. 4

Description: This session discussion is about triple option pricing considerations, actuarial versus experience pricing, unified pricing and underwriting, marketing problems, analysis of results and risk sharing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: In this session 153 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists look at the actuarial background, financial implications, underwriting, and solvency issues posed by various newsworthy items. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session dealt with Regulatory Considerations in Group Insurance. Topics included: 1. National health insurance. 2. Federal hospital cost control programs. 3. Non-discrimination legislation and regulation. 4. Multiple- employer trusts. 5. Impact of recent OASDI financing changes. 6. Changes in mandatory retirement age on group insurance.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.

Description: This session discussion is about the profitability outlook, both long and short term, for various health coverage related products such as: HMOs,, Small group insurance TPAs and ASO, Individual medical, and Individual disability income. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This panel discussion, from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion on development as of 1982 in the education and exam system. Topics included: 1. Goals, purposes and objectives of actuarial examination and education. 2. Critique of the current system. 3. Role of the academic community in actuarial education. 4. Interrelationship of the Society's E&E structure with that of other actuarial bodies. 5. Plans and future directions.

Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. In this session panelists presented an overview of underwriting processes for a variety of product lines. They also discuss related topics such as identifying keys to underwriting decisions, the cost of underwriting and protective value, and ensuring consistency with pricing assumptions. Some of the underwriting tools discussed were use of RX history, credit checks, DMV history, and fraud data bases.