Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

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 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 group insurance, the experience under industry-wide group policies, problems in the writing of small groups, the trend of hospital and surgical expense claim ratios, experiments providing medical expense benefits for pensioners, and examines the progress made in developing catastrophe coverages.

Description: Discusses considerations taken in determining desirable limits on the amount of group life insurance per life - apart from legislative restrictions, problems presented in the extension of group medical insurance to retired lives, and recent group medical experience.

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: 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 discussion focuses on looking at the growth of and improvements in Voluntary Plans. As well as efforts being made to publicize the availability of voluntary plans, problems involved in the different approaches to coverage and federal proposals. From the Transaction of the SOA, Vol. 2 No. 4

Description: This paper covers two topics of discussion within the insurance field: Medical Expense Insurance and Underwriting. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meetings in Atlanta and San Francisco. These panel discussions reviewed procedures, techniques and vehicles used to provide benefits to retired employees. The panels also discussed Group Insurance Dividends and Major Medical issues.