Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Vancouver Spring Meeting explains the federal group long term care program and addresses the effect it has had on group plan designs, new entrants into the market, and sales of individual long term care insurance.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of the current status of the long-term-care insurance industry and discuss growth, regulation changes, rate stabilization, underwriting and claims management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 62

Description: The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 established the nationwide expansion of a Long–Term-Care Partnership program into which any state can choose to participate. This article describes that program and what it means for a person insured under a qualifying long-term-care insurance policy.

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

Description: Panelists provide an overview of long-term-care insurance. They present basic information relating to how the product works, unique pricing and risk considerations, marketing, and reserve and capital requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1, Session 48

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss current Long Term Care Insurance issues, including plan designs and other activities in the market, and state and federal regulatory and legislative activities.

Description: This is a research report that highlights the characteristics of combination plans that serve to reduce the risks to insurers issuing life or annuity products linked to long-term care insurance. Observations are provided to assist in the understanding of the factors that explain the profit change sensitivity results and the natural hedging against major risks that inherently is present within the linked products.