Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the findings of the recent Group Life Experience Study using data from 1985 to 1989. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: The panelists in this session discuss current industry practices and new considerations on many items of interest to LTD valuation actuaries. Topics include an update on the Group LTD Experience Study, assumptions and methodology for integration provisions, reserve margin illustrations using asset share models, and reserve run out analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 54

Description: This open forum begins with a presentation of the final report of the Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee. This report encompasses claim incidence and termination rates based on a decade of industry experience. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.

Description: A study of disability experience examines cost burden and degree of disability, and how these measures vary across different subpopulations. This article summarizes a presentation given at the Society of Actuaries’ Living to 100: Survival to Advanced Ages International Symposium held on Jan. 7–9, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. An abstract of the author's paper was presented in the September 2008 issue of Long-Term Care News.

Description: Describes benefits of updating homes for aging in place. Calls for stakeholders coalition of: building & tech sectors, LTCI, homecare, health insurance & care.

Description: A view of Social Security disability experience for 1970 through 1978, and future projected trends based on observed application, approval, and recovery rates.

Description: Information to help participating companies prepare a complete and precise submission for the experience study.

Description: The abstract for the paper Trajectories of Disability and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population: Evidence from the 1984-1999 NLTCS.

Description: Disease management DM is increasingly encountered in health plans and employer groups as a health care intervention targeted to individuals with chronic diseases chronics. The untested assumption is that without DM, the chronic and non-chronic trends are identical. From Financing Chronic Care Monograph, M-HB05-1.

Description: Report of the Task Force to Recommend Morbidity Standards for Valuation of Credit Disability. The key recommendation was that a new morbidity standard for valuation of policy reserves be adopted based on the tables developed by the Task Force. The tables are developed from the 85CIDA tables with incidence rates increased by 12%.