Description: Panelists discuss the history of this 75-year-old Medical Information Bureau MIB, its very active and data-rich source of medical information, and the services that the MIB offers to clients and other industry groups. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: This presentation, session number 103PD, took place at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 17-20 in San Francisco. The panelists review the history of credit insurance, discussing credit insurance regulation, changing consumers’ attitudes toward credit insurance, changes in the products and marketplace, and how the Consumer Credit Insurance Association has evolved since its founding in 1951. The panelists then discuss where the credit insurance industry is heading with respect to new product development and marketing methods, consumer attitudes, and further changes in regulation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session is about the practical and theoretical considerations in all-lines insurance operations, solvency of all-lines companies, and financial implications of all-lines operations, including investment of assets and Federal Income Tax.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Credit insurance, long the mainstay in this venue, is being supplanted by a vast array of products designed to meet the particular needs of borrowers without the encumbrance of regulation. This session discusses the activity in this segment of the insurance industry as well as concepts that might transfer to other related instruments.

Description: Discusses new-product displacement of in-force policies, critical-resource management, agency considerations, and monitoring experience. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about joint ventures and private labeling for life, annuity and disability products. In a primary variation of private labeling, a manufacturer develops, underwrites, administers, and does the actuarial functions, but the client company markets the product. Other variations of joint ventures have different distributions of duties.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring