Description: Panelists and audience members give their views on health-insurance topics including recent large claims experience, frequency and severity components of large claims trends, pricing, reserving, and the outlook for the future. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 79OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This session reviewed the distinctions and blurring of those distinctions between group and individual life insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided

Description: Claim management is one of the most complex yet critical components of managing a block of disability business. This session discusses actuarial involvment in: · Claim settlements · Litigation · Performance management · Reserving assumptions From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 74

Description: Discussion of anticipated marketing and pricing considerations of Group Insurance in the 1980's including: a. Regulatory environment including National Health Insurance b. Economic and growth potential c. Competition including Health Maintenance Organizations d. Technology e. Evolving role of employee benefits f. Products g. Pricing considerations h. Marketing approaches Also, discussion of the 1960's and the 1970's a. Major influences b. Benefit changes c. Alternate funding approaches 2. The 1980's environment a.

Description: Fairly thorough discussion about group universal life, from history through legal and actuarial issues and market outlook. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: Discussion of the attitudes of consumers and consumerists regarding the life insurance industry and its products and a discussion of opportunities for improvement Topics include: 1. Disclosure to existing policyholders 2. Policy loan problems, including the policy replacement problem 3. dividend determination practices and 4. deceptive sales practices in the llfe insurance business.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Speakers from a bank, stockbrokerage and mutual fund company address, for their industry, the nature of customer contact, methods of distribution, investment management capabilities, the need for a level playing field, and potential cross-breeding of various industries.

Description: Panel discussion session examining individual retirement account competition including products offered by banks, stock brokerage firms,mutual fund companies, and insurers. Discussion of market share of each type of financial institution in the IRA market.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is a continuation of the Reinsurance Section Breakfast, federal tax issues, state regulatory issues, changing climate in reinsurance and administrative issues and international issues.

Description: This 1981 session reviewed the relationship of group and individual insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided