Description: This session at the 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers regulatory activity with respect to health insurance that is of interest to valuation actuaries. Topics discussed include financial reporting, health risk-based capital, health reserves, and long term care issues.

Description: This session 39TS of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the different techniques for determining health unpaid claim liabilities such as the traditional loss development method, casualty reserving techniques and new approaches that have been discussed in recent actuarial literature. Case studies explore and illustrate the issues and the pros and cons associated with each technique.