Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the movement to small group health plans, group insurance underwriting, the plan design of non-traditional benefit programs such as cafeteria plans, HMO's and PPO's and new financial processes. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the developments in the group insurance market in the 1980s including designing benefit plans with the employee as the focus, the cost to the corporate employer, and the group insurance underwriter's outlook.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting covers flexible benefit plans which encompasses cafeteria plans, flexible compensation and flexible spending accounts. It also looks at antiselection on flexible benefit plans, pricing the options and the advantages and disadvantages of such programs.