Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current long-term-care [LTC] market and trends. They cover recent hot topics such as pricing, rate stabilization, administration, marketing, and hybrid/combo products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 16

Description: This paper introduces continuing care retirement communities and outlines the major recent developments in financing procedures and regulatory requirements aimed at keeping these entities solvent. In particular, it describes the Actuarially Based Financial Management System created by the AAA and the accounting Statement of Position 90-8 promulgated by the AICPA. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995 Vol. 47

Description: This is the sixth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 35 insurers. Available data was collected on policies issued between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2007. Claims incurred on policies during this same timeframe were followed from claim inception through the earlier of claim termination or June 30, 2008.

Description: This article focuses on strategies that long term care insurance companies are using today to invest assets more profitably and manage risks more effectively to help ensure that they can meet their obligations and move forward in an uncertain market.

Description: The Society's Group Disability Insurance Experience Committee has completed their study of termination experience for the period 1997-2006.

Description: This report is the fifth in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA and the SOA Long-Term Care Experience Committee. The report presents results for industry long-term care insurance (LTCI) persistency. Persistency is examined based on eighteen participating companies reporting lapse, mortality, and total termination activity for calendar years 2000 through 2016. The report and a supplemental Tableau database with several dashboard views can be accessed in the Materials section.

Description: An updated ASOP No. 2 will be effective June 1, 2022, for nonguaranteed element (NGEs) determination for life and annuity products. Join this roundtable discussion on the considerations around the revisions to ASOP No. 2, including topics as: NGE framework - an actuary’s role in setting NGE policy - pricing factors for NGEs on new products - considerations when contemplating changing NGEs under the new ASOP - value of the revised ASOP No. 2 in NGE determinations, reviews and revisions

Description: Welcome to the first articles written for the Underwriting Network appearing in the newsletter. At the 5th Annual Inter-Company LTCI Conference, Dr. William Rodman Shankle and Dr. James M. Jacobson gave us a fresh look at cognitive testing.

Description: A Review of Proposed Changes to the NAIC’s Model Regulations for LTC Insurance and it's shortcomings in addressing rate stability and marketing abuses. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2001, Issue No. 4.

Description: Steps the AAA long-term care work group is taking to address the actuarial certification and rate stability of LTCI. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.