Description: This discussion focuses on sickness insurance and associated issues. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss recent developments in expanding major medical expense coverage under individual policies and group policies, and progress made in providing hospital, surgical and medical expense coverage beyond age 65. Guaranteed renewability and substandard issues are discussed.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to health insurance coverage at older ages including levels of coverage, underwriting issues, expense levels, and renewability provisions.

Description: This discussion looks at the effects in Canada that Provincial Government Hospital Plans are having on insurance company plans providing hospital benefits. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at issues related to active life reserves for health insurance including the feasability of standardized reserves, surplus strain from minimum reserves, and active life reserves on cancelable business.

Description: The presenters will discuss the range of draft repeal/repair/replace legislation proposed to date, the elements most likely to be included in the final law, and possible temporary and transitional measures to be taken. They will share their findings regarding the impact on the industry of these changes using the most up to date data and modeling available.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss group life and health insurance, including modifications of standard underwriting controls and administration practices for groups of less than 25 lives claim experience and other matters relating to those smaller groups the experience of companies writing hospital plans new forms of group accident and sickness benefits [e.g. major medical] and experience on conversions of group accident and sickness. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This discussion at a 1959 Regional Meeting looks at persistency of accident and health insurance, variation by type of coverage, recent experience, and the future outlook.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This discussion on statistical analysis and group insurance examines the use of Reports of Mortality and Morbidity by smaller companies, practices followed to obtain a satisfactory experience with group accident, sickness and group hospital, surgical and medical coverages. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 18.