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 is a discussion about employee benefit plans: -Group Life - What has been the effect of the new law taxing employer contributions in excess of $50K? What special underwriting problems have occurred, what underwriting techniques used, what has the mortality experience been? -Group Health - What are special considerations where premium rates are guaranteed for greater than one year? Are any additional reserves established? What are the current developments in Group dental? Have any experience studies been made? What is the potential market for group dental? -Group Annuities - What volume of business has been written on separate accounts or segregated funds? What problems have arisen in administering this type of plan? -Miscellaneous- What has been the experience on high limit accidental death and dismemberment benefits? In pension plans has there been an increase in joint and survivorship options? Has there been an increase in disability benefits under retirement plans? To what extent is the new money concept being adopted in fields other than group annuities? What is the current outlook with regard to reducing or eliminating the difference in taxes imposed on insured employee benefit plans vs self-insured plans? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This article was presented at the 1978 SOA Spring Meeting and discussed the individual health insurance with issues such as: revisions in guaranteed renewable gross premiums adequacy of current policy and claim reserves and the new valuation tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 4.

Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This is a discussion about the impact the 1965 OASDI changes will have on group long-term disability insurance and group medical insurance. Also discussed are the rates of growth of separate accounts and variable annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on filling the gaps in US health insurance including the identification of the uninsured & underinsured and proposed bills - catastrophic insurance, the Kennedy bill & NAICs Building Blocks proposal. 1979 Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: This session discussed health insurance issues such as the taxation of employer health benefits and the calculations of tax health reserves. Canadian medical and disability insurance plans are discussed. Also discussed is transplant coverages. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 1 in San Francisco

Description: This session discussion is about the role of data analysis in decision making, HIAA surveys, National Center for Health Statistics [surveys on Ambulatory Medical Care, Hospital Discharge and Nursing Homes], and SOA experience data collection efforts. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This is a discussion about the problem of overinsurance arising from duplication of coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: Panel discussion of alternative approaches to the design of reserve standards, to include those topics discussed in several recent papers and committee reports.