Description: With the IDI market consolidating, panelists at this session 47PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss significant considerations in selling or buying a block of IDI business, relative to reinsurance, valuation, tax, and regulatory issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel examines current issues involving disability income reinsurance, presented from both the insurer and reinsurer viewpoints, including: recent reinsurer experience, problems facing DI writers, and uses of reinsurance.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. This panelists discuss how have different individual disability lines of business [stock versus mutual, large versus small] have tried to improve their profitability. They discuss profitability expectations, key factors affecting profitability, recent changes to improve profitability and most difficult obstacles faced, and key management information systems [MIS] needs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: The report details data from a number of carriers on the percentage of LTD claimants who are receiving disability benefits from other sources that offset their LTD benefits and how this percentage is affected by various factors.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. This report should be viewed as a supplement to the Individual Life Report. Many of the issues and conclusions in the Individual Life Report are equally applicable to individual disability insurance and are therefore not discussed herein. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: Panel explores new disability products offered by writers of individual disability insurance and the ways in which these products connect with other types of insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel explored ways in which disability insurance underwriting guidelines must be closely linked to product design and sales methods. Panelists discussed a number of specific issues, including emerging illnesses, the protective value of various testing procedures, the role of financial underwriting, and the links between product, price, and underwriting.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 Dallas Regional Meeting is about current issues in individual disability income market, including underwriting, claim control, product design, sales tactic, management reports, reinsurance and closed block strategies.

Description: This article discusses many of the complexities of the new IDI valuation table and how they might impact the implementation process.

Description: An article that talks about the individual disability income IDI Market and how it is reaching out to Physicians. Issue No. 59