Description: This article discusses the problems facing long-term care insurance. These include slowing sales, large premium increases and carriers exiting the market. The author suggests that the public needs to be better educated and that insurers need to find innovative ways to design products that are sustainable, yet sufficiently affordable to be attractive to a wide variety of buyers.

Description: This session exams the SOA Long-Term Care Valuation Table Committee's progress on valuation, reserve adequacy & regulatory issues as well as table construction and implementation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 97

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss Long Term Care Insurance pricing including the appropriate assumptions for claim costs, mortality, interest, lapse rates and required surplus, plus regulatory issues and the ability to obtain and implement rate increases.

Description: Panelists discuss pricing considerations on long-term care inforce contracts including: · State & NAIC regulation on premium rate changes · Challenges in implementing premium changes · Product design features like rate guarantees and limited-pay contracts From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 6

Description: The implications of the new long-term care law for individuals, employers, insurers and providers, and the federal government.

Description: Panelists discuss emerging valuation-actuary-related issues, including: [1] for long-term-care insurance [LTCI], reserves, risk-based capital [RBC], and new experience forms, [2] for Medicare Part D, several potential future changes, and [3] for health insurance in general, the new Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 85 [SSAP 85] and existing SSAP 84, and current activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] regarding a definition of 'insurance.' Session 27PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.