Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the small and mini-group market including trends in plan design, underwriting strategies, approaches to marketing compensation and claim cost containment strategies. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: Discussion that developing credibility factors for group health insurance can be accomplished empirically through the use of stochastic models with appropriate parameters and fairly readily obtainable data, without the need for unrealistic assumptions.

Description: Details of an actuary’s project to help a local nonprofit agency improve its data analysis and customer service issues.

Description: The SOA released a report titled Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform, which looks at the impact on insurance markets, pricing and profitability.

Description: Chapter 1 presents the background to the current study, followed by the methodology used, and a summary of the findings of the study. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: The 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) approved by the NAIC as the new statutory minimum reserve morbidity basis.

Description: This session discussion is about managed mental health, substance abuse, prescription drug, and vision benefits. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: CLASS Act and ACA

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.