Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss dread disease and critical illness products. Products sold in various markets around the world are reviewed.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting look at various considerations for an HMO when marketing, underwriting, and pricing their products for the small employer market.

Description: Panelists discuss potential effects on the health insurance system and implications of future developments in genetic technology. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 53.

Description: This session is about the current insurance topics such as: Experience rating problems, Long term disability problems, Health Maintenance Organizations Reinsurance.

Description: The question of sex discrimination in employee pension plans in life insurance programs is only part of the more general issue of risk classification. Challenges to the old ways of classifying risks are not limited to pensions or to life insurance. It also impacts auto insurance, health insurance, and all other areas. However, for this discussion we will concentrate on sex discrimination in pension and retirement plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This 1980 session is about effect of government actions and consumerism on product design and pricing. Areas addressed: 1. What have been the most important regulatory and consumerist actions in the past decade as related to products, their marketing and the overall operation of a life insurance company? 2. What will be the most important actions in these arenas in the next decade? 3. What specific impact have these regulatory and consumer actions had on companies in the past decade and will they have in the coming decade? 4. What true value has accrued to consumers and the public because of these actions, and what impact will they have in the next decade? 5. Is there an acceptable relationship between the value of these benefits and the cost to the companies of providing them?

Description: This panel discussion covers the actuary's responsibility related to self-funded group insurance programs whether the actuary is an insurance company employee or conslutant.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on individual health insurance including regulations and the considerations to guide decisions as to product portfolio marketing objectives and distribution systems.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the importance of a monitoring system with flexible capabilities for managing health insurance and health insurance rate regulation addressing established guidelines for lifetime loss ratios.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses trends in group medical product design including cost sharing and cost containment features, underwriting considerations, rating considerations and monitoring and evaluating effectiveness. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2