Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Disabled lives reserves for waiver of premium claims represent significant liabilities for group life insurers who, for the past 35 years, have relied on the 1970 Intercompany Group Life Disability Experience Table. The 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table is the replacement. This paper includes an overview of the process and the related findings from this work.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: 1980 Report adds the experience by number of lives for calendar years 1975-79 under group life insurance policies to that previously reported. Disability experience is also given under 4 difference contract provisions.

Description: The first report from 1969 of a new study of claim frequencies, charges, and claim costs for a sample of basic Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance Plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969 Reports

Description: This research report is to measure the variation in group medical insurance claim costs by duration from issue in small groups with 1 - 25 employees .

Description: A recent Society of Actuaries study calculates safety and stability for current Long Term Care Insurance premiums.

Description: This paper presents the results of the 1957 report of intercompany experience with group surgical expense benefits prepared by the Group Morbidity Committee of the Society of Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: The 6th annual 1968 report on the study of morbidity experience of Group Comprehensive Medical Expense insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968 Reports

Description: Since detailed claim information is not readily available to the Committee on Group Mortality and Morbidity on an annual basis, a special investigation of group hospital expense experience has been conducted. That investigation is summarized in this paper, and covers plan descriptions, morbidity and cost data, and continuation tables.