Description: This discussion at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings focuses group accident and health insurance. Issues discussed include premium structures, projecting experience and claims experience due to new coverage limitations.

Description: This paper examines the adjustment of premiums under guaranteed renewable health insurance policies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This paper describes the development of the net annual claim costs, net premiums, and reserve factors that comprise the 1974 Medical Expense Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: This paper sets forth a standard of expected claim costs for Comprehensive Medical Expense plans together with the underlying rationale. This is known as the '1960 Tabular'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 41.

Description: This paper presents a disability continuance table based on industry individual policy experience to render it suitable as a standard for expected claims and for adjusted earnings purposes. Also includes discussion of the paper by John B. Cummings, Timothy A. Hinchliff, John H.Miller, R.Terry Nelson, John S.Thompson Jr., Eduard H.Minor

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to analyze several existing versions of the return of premium provision and to attempt to develop a logical critique of the concept, with the object of suggesting certain criteria [cost, equity, and compatibility with the purpose of the basic coverage of the health contract] which could serve as a basis for evaluating the merits of various forms of the provision. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol. 22, Pt. 1, No. 64.

Description: This is the presidential address of former SOA president, E. Paul Barnhart concerning the actuarial profession and the society of actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper presents the findings of the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Individual Accident and Health Valuation Principles concerning statutory reserve standards for policy and claim reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.