Description: Panelists discuss a variety of recent developments in the group disability marketplace, including new risk-based-capital requirements, progress toward a new experience table, and the impact of war and recession. Also discussed was a new catastrophic-event LTD pool originated by John Hewitt & Associates [JHA]. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 81OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This presentation from Session 6PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting provides a comprehensive overview of today's disability insurance industry for group and individual disability insurers. Panelists address issues such as financial experience, mergers and acquisitions, changing products, the role of reinsurance, and growth potential. In addition, this session includes historical perspective on the disability insurance industry and a glimpse of what may lie ahead. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: A number of industry groups are currently exploring issues related to reserving assumptions and methodology for group and individual disability insurance, including potential changes to the valuation morbidity tables. This presentation from Session 129PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting provides an update on the progress of these projects. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.