Description: Discusses: Types of medical expense insurance being offered and features, risk management, pricing, and methods of pre-funding retiree benefits.

Description: Discussion of interest rates and investments. The forum looked at the outlook for interest rates on life insurance funds, new developments for the investment of life insurance funds, common stock investments, inflation, and the nature and extent of the valuation problem created by direct investment private placement.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss changes in investment policy over the last ten years, direct placement financing, differences among companies by size, equity investments and real estate ownership. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This discussion focuses on group insurance, the experience under industry-wide group policies, problems in the writing of small groups, the trend of hospital and surgical expense claim ratios, experiments providing medical expense benefits for pensioners, and examines the progress made in developing catastrophe coverages.

Description: Discusses considerations taken in determining desirable limits on the amount of group life insurance per life - apart from legislative restrictions, problems presented in the extension of group medical insurance to retired lives, and recent group medical experience.

Description: This discussion on reinsurance looks at criteria which applies in setting the acceptance and retention limits of a smaller company, if its advantageous to divide risks between two or more reinsurers, and what reinsurance a small company needs on group insurance or on individual accident and sickness insurance.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss group life and health insurance, including modifications of standard underwriting controls and administration practices for groups of less than 25 lives claim experience and other matters relating to those smaller groups the experience of companies writing hospital plans new forms of group accident and sickness benefits [e.g. major medical] and experience on conversions of group accident and sickness. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This Transactions section contains book reviews and summaries of recent publications. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This discussion focuses on looking at the growth of and improvements in Voluntary Plans. As well as efforts being made to publicize the availability of voluntary plans, problems involved in the different approaches to coverage and federal proposals. From the Transaction of the SOA, Vol. 2 No. 4