Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management actuary and the product management process. Topics discussed : 1. The monitoring of the environment and how that monitoring leads to the generation of ideas. 2. Consideration of how those ideas are affected by distribution, marketing, and organizational issues. 3. The setting of assumptions. 4. How to get different areas of your company to work together, and ways to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. 5. How to manage business once your company places it on the books.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussion is about FAS 106 valuations, issues, assumptions, data, per capita claims before versus after age 65 and transition strategies. Topics addressed: 1. Issues and assumptions. 2. Data. 3. Per capita claim cost before versus after age 65. 4. Transition strategies.

Description: This discussion at the San Francisco and Washington 1966 Regional Meetings covers three topics - Disability Benefits under Life or Health Insurance Policies, Changes in Individual Medical Expense Insurance in the Light of Medicare, and Optional Modes of Settlement.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1982 Orlando Spring Meeting presented a discussion on Small Group Insurance. Discussion included the role of the agent, monitoring financial results, benefit design, the use of individual underwriting, rate guarantees and frequency of rate adjustments and trends in coverage.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1982 Colorado Springs Spring Meeting presented a discussion on Small Group Insurance. Discussion included the role of the agent, monitoring financial results, benefit design, the use of individual underwriting, rate guarantees and frequency of rate adjustments and trends in coverage.

Description: Insurers have been getting out of the individual medical expense market. This session will address the implications of such a decision: Nature of the problem Viability of individual medical products Challenge to the actuary Consequences of withdrawal Alternatives of withdrawal. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2 at Salt Lake City

Description: Presented at June 1980 Spring Meeting. Discusses recent developments related to health insurance reserves, the concepts included in several recent papers and committee reports on this topic, and the status of proposed model valuation legislation.

Description: Panelists, representing commercial carriers and large and small independent carriers, discuss what changes they envision in the industry of health maintenance organizations [HMOs]. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting debate the pros and cons of Medical Savings Accounts [MSA]. Viewpoints on the effectiveness of MSAs, expected changes in medical consumer behavior, anticipated cost savings, and other topics are discussed.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discusses issues associated with the development of HMO plans for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.