Description: Panel discussion on how insurers can deal with the proliferation of laws, court decisions and regulations, and on the outlook for future developments in health insurance regulatory environment.

Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists discuss the NAIC new loss ratio requirements for limited benefit [supplemental] health plans and companies' responses to these requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored some of the general issues applicable to the appointed actuary, particularly from a health insurance perspective: 1. What it means. 2. How it developed. 3. What are the duties? 4. To whom is the appointed actuary responsible? 5. What kind of product the appointed actuary has to produce?

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting discuss Congressional proposals for changing Medicare and the Academy's Medicare Reform Task Force report with respect to financial soundness, competition and potential prescription drug benefits.

Description: Rating agencies, investment bankers and insurance regulators discuss their views on how recent events, such as the economic climate, the war on terrorism, regulatory actions and initiatives and litigation affect health insurers and reinsurers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 115

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Topics covered in this session include Internet-based health plan exchanges, defined-contribution health plans, self-directed health plans, personal spending accounts, and episodic based reimbursement to insureds.

Description: Topics to be discussed include various regulator and industry benchmarks, comparative data on capital and surplus levels among health carriers, and capital allocation and modeling techniques used to assign capital to various lines of business. From Record of the SOA, Vol. 29, No. 2, Session 20

Description: Introductory report on several factors influencing the actual to tabular ratios for health insurance.

Description: This is the 1971 report in a series on annual studies of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance.