Description: In this session on the topic of health insurance valuation issues, the topics covered included Sarbanes-Oxley considerations, internal replacement Standards of Practice, self-funded plans, and long-term-care insurance developments. From a session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005.

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.