Description: In this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting, panelists discuss how managed care dental programs work, the actuarial issues, quality issues, and the perspective of the dentist.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS: Experience, trends and projections, medical and disability points of view, pricing, underwriting and epidemiologic implications and results of survey on current practices. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: In light of nonprofit health insuring organizations converting from nonprofit to for profit status and with the flurry of health maintenance organization M&A activity, this session at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting addresses actuarial techniques used to measure 'value' and the issues surrounding such valuation.

Description: This session is about appointed actuary issues for the health actuary including cash-flow testing, asset valuation and risk-based capital. From Record of Society of Actuary Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: This session is about health insurance cash-flow testing through liability and asset modeling for individual disability income insurance and health valuations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This session at the SOA 2000 Las Vegas Spring Meeting provides instructions on methods used for calculating health insurance contract and deficiency reserves including a review of the NAIC Health Reserve Guidance Manual.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about joint ventures and private labeling for life, annuity and disability products. In a primary variation of private labeling, a manufacturer develops, underwrites, administers, and does the actuarial functions, but the client company markets the product. Other variations of joint ventures have different distributions of duties.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about practice notes. The panelists debated the value of them and then discussed being aware of our legal liability.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about techniques, methods, and assumptions for projecting cash flows for reserve analysis with emphasis on year-end reporting and communicating results. New York Regulation 126, proposed changes to the Standard Valuation Law, and actuarial standards of practice are discussed.