Description: A perspective of the impact on the insurance industry after the first decade of AIDS in the US.

Description: Some life insurers in Canada are pioneering a creative new noncontractual approach to meeting the financial needs of terminally ill insureds who may need funds for medical and living expenses. Funds are made available by lending a portion of the death benefit to the terminally ill insured. This is a loan against future death proceeds it is independent of loans against any cash value, which would be used first.

Description: This session discussion is about research on the financial implications of AIDS, particularly reserving and pricing implications, has been conducted by several major actuarial bodies. Their up-to-the-minute findings and recommendations will be presented at this meeting. We will then have an open discussion of these reports and also discuss what actions companies have already taken or plan to take. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting explores the status and impact of AIDS in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere in the world.

Description: This report has been assembled by the Task Force as a comprehensive guide to practicing actuaries in evaluating the impact of AIDS on the solvency of life and health insurance companies in the US and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on AIDS including an update on the epidemic and discussion about the actuarial implication of four case studies.

Description: This paper by the SOA Committee on HIV research builds on past work to show three projections of the future of the AIDS epidemic. These scenarios can provide information to actuaries in considering the financial impact of AIDS for life and health insurance. The paper develops general population AIDS mortality rates related to the three scenarios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The five speakers discuss product development trends for five different types of individual life insurance products: universal life, traditional life, term insurance, variable life, and multiple life plans. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues of the AIDS/HIV epidemic including the extra mortality, reserving options, a proposed actuarial standard of practice, and also covers the Canadian perspective.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session offers a retrospective and prospective look at the development of actuarial pricing models and technology tools.