Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the future of individual comprehensive medical expense insurance including trends, state regulation, plan design, and financial experience. From Record Of The Society Of Actuaries Volume 8, Number 4

Description: This session discusses rising health care costs and availability of coverage. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This article is a summary of “Reports of Consultants on Actuarial and Definitional Aspects of Social Security Disability Insurance,” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. These reports are concerned with the disability portion of the Social Security Act and more specifically, with certain aspects of the definition of disability and the increases in benefit utilization that are taking place under this disability program.

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 is a panel discussion session on the purpose, rationale and conclusions of the Committee for Accident and Health Valuation Principles. Discussion also covers the comments received and any modifications to their original draft report.

Description: This discussion is about the significant conclusions that are drawn from the report of 1955-57 morbidity experience under Individual Accident and Sickness policies, hospital-surgical contract morbidity, and disability experience. From Transactions of SOA 1961 Vol. 13 Pt. 2

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 paper presents the findings of the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Individual Accident and Health Valuation Principles concerning statutory reserve standards for policy and claim reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: The Committee's charge was to develop new disability tables for possible adoption by appropriate authorities for valuation of individual policy reserves, i.e. active life reserves, and individual and group claim reserves for disabled lives. It was generally agreed that the current valuation table, the 1964 Commissioner’s Disability Table, ‘1964 CDT,’ was no longer appropriate for several reasons. This paper presents the detailed results of the committee's findings and their recommendations. From the 1985 Transactions, Vol. 37.