Description: This session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists in session 65OF of the New Orleans Annual Meeting provide a summary of products in today's disability insurance marketplace containing ROP rider and current pricing and reserving issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 65OF.

Description: Panelists discuss discouraging trends in the individual disability income DI market, particularly discussed is the outlook for profitability, and what changes should be made to products and/or distribution. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presenters in this session 6PD of the New York Annual Meeting share visions of the future for disability insurance with respect to markets, risks, products, profitability, and outline viable strategies for success. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Provides background on the Brazilian insurance authority's ban of the group life rider benefit for Total and Permanent Disability due to illness, TPD. Then discusses alternative benefits that could be offered as replacements.

Description: The viability and future outlook for the individual disability industry has dramatically improved from where it was 10 years ago. Evidence of this turn–around can be found in the industry's current profitability and its development of new markets. This article discusses where the market stands today.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.

Description: The author discusses group short-term disability or STD programs, including the advantages and disadvantages of self insured vs. insured plans, as well as hybrid approaches.

Description: Several employers at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss their experience implementing managed disability programs of different types. These employers discuss the barriers they needed to overcome to implement their approach to managed disability, and the impact of their managed programs on cost and quality of service.

Description: This discussion is about the future of non-cancellable disability income.