Description: This discussion on major medical expense insurance examines the trends in the types of plans sold, popularity of the comprehensive type of medical expense insurance plan, special problems, and dependent coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

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: 1973 SOA Annual Meeting. This paper provided summaries of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meeting including: 1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH PROGRAMS. 2. MARKETING INDIVIDUAL ORDINARY INSURANCE. 3. ACTUARIAL LITERATURE. 4. INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE. 5. GROUP SURVIVOR INCOME BENEFITS. 6. GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH - EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS. 7. PENSION PLAN FINANCIAL REPORTING.

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.