Description: Panel session exploring a variety of issues connected to long-term disability reserve buyouts, including: · Advantages and risks for buyers and sellers · Use of appropriate reserving assumptions · Possible financial structures for a buyout

Description: Panelists discuss discouraging trends in the individual disability income DI market, particularly discussed is the outlook for profitability, and what changes should be made to products and/or distribution. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 33PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. Current information on experience trends in public and private long term disability [LTD] programs is essential for use in pricing and valuation work. In this session, the speakers, including representatives from the Social Security Administration and the Society of Actuaries Group Disability Experience Committee, discuss the recent morbidity experience that they have observed in their respective programs, the Social Security disability program, and the private LTD insurance market. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss, along with industry experience trends, issues of timely relevance to group LTD actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: The panelists in this session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the outlook for the individual disability business including sales potential, nontraditional approaches to the market, and risk management issues.

Description: After many years of decline, the individual disability insurance industry is now experiencing double-digit growth in sales and profits. Attendees learn about quantitative and qualitative evidence of opportunities that exist in the individual disability market, along with specific varying product approaches. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 22

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers individual non-cancellable DI by three major writers who discuss their view of the viability of non-cancellable DI and some of the steps their companies have taken or are planning to take to address their concerns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This session addresses buying or selling a block of long-term disability or life waiver claims: assumptions used to value these blocks, how life waiver business differs from long-term disability business, and possible structures for a deal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 65

Description: New GAAP accounting rules require different reporting of long-duration liabilities, which include active life reserves for individual disability insurance policies. This session reviews the new GAAP rules and provides practical guidance for disability insurers in the implementation of these requirements.