Description: New developments in long term care reinsurance.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Many long-term-care insurers are outsourcing administrative functions to management organizations. The panelists discuss the reasons for this outsourcing, the functions that can be outsourced, financial incentives for vendors, criteria for selecting a vendor, monitoring performance and other aspects of the business relationship.

Description: Brief discussion of future anticipated health reform and information on papers discussing these reforms. Topics include Medicare, individual insurnace, tax credits & subsidies, pre-Medicare retirees and Medicaid

Description: Managed Care Risk-Based Capital new formula for HMOs and BCBS plans, modification of disability income, LTC and stop loss factors, market uses of RBC, company use of RBC Issue No. 37.

Description: Smaller Insurance Companies and Long-Term Care Insurance by Tony Proulx from Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2004, Issue No. 11.

Description: This article is about the most significant issues and trends that may impact long-term care LTC risks, care delivery and protection in the future.

Description: Panel session on the challenge that many insurers face as they try to grow their long-term-care insurance business, while simultaneously ensuring analysts and shareholders that earnings targets will be met.

Description: Essay reforming management in health care, structure of reimbursement, program management, health information, measurement systems, etc.

Description: This literature guide focuses on individual life insurance distribution, with an emphasis on marketing operations which use the agency distribution system - although much of the material is applicable to direct response marketing.

Description: Task Force report on life insurance company sales illustration practices from the perspective of the consumer. The study analyzes how well current illustration practices serve their primary functions of: 1. showing the consumer their policy values and premium payments over time, and 2. projecting best estimates of future performance and providing cost and performance comparisons with other policies.