Description: The article provides an overview of the federal tax treatment of long-term care insurance contracts, including a brief history of the tax treatment of long-term care insurance, the requirements that must be satisfied in order to be treated as qualified long-term care insurance under the Internal Revenue Code, and a brief discussion of qualified long-term care combination products and chronic and terminal illness accelerated death benefits offered under life insurance contracts.

Description: This article discusses the ways reinsurers support ceding companies: 1. Sharing morbidity risk. 2. Sharing other risks such as return on investment. 3. Sharing of expertise such as providing underwriting advice. 4. Sharing financial resources. 5. Sharing the role of consumer protection.

Description: Preparing an initial LTCI rate filing under the 2000 LTCI Model Regulation certification requirements. From Long-Term Care, Dec 2003, Issue No. 10

Description: Cognitive tests used in the long-term care insurance industry differ in cognitive domains tested, time required for testing, ease of test administration, sensitivity and specificity. Recently, new approaches to scoring or testing have improved test utility for screening for cognitive impairment.

Description: Long Term Care Insurance Reserves and Reinsurance Balancing between statutory and GAAP requiements. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Managing the Risks at Extreme Age — Underwriting at Ages 80+. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: Discussion of the items the AAA work group is reviewing with regards to the NAIC Model Regulation for Long-Term Care for premiums sufficiency and pricing. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: This article will highlight new model visualization approaches we use to shed light on the “black-box” nature of advanced modeling techniques. These visualizations help us better highlight and understand the key drivers of predictions so that they can be understood and validated by all stakeholders

Description: Premium rates for Long-Term Care insurance return of premium riders at death. Issue No. 10

Description: This article provides a high-level overview of the 2016 Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance (ILTCI) Conference. The article contains a summary of all conference activities, including various networking and educational opportunities. The main objective of the conference is to provide an information sharing and collaborative environment for insurance professionals, regulatory authorities, insurance educational institutes, actuaries and other special groups with an interest in long-term care (LTC) insurance.