Description: Stale portfolio got your sales down? In this session, you'll learn about the latest and greatest in product development trends and innovations which you can use to refresh and revitalize your products. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will have a better understanding on market trends in product development as well as leading innovations.

Description: Discusses Vehicle Service Contracts and Gap Insurance.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: This paper derives exact expressions for the ultimate ruin probability and establishes the effect of correlation on ruin probability using the Wiener-Hopf factorization.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The discussion identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss: records and accounting of the varied types of Group Accident and Sickness coverage practices of group insurance policyholders with respect to the continuation of coverage on their retired employees, for life and other group coverages and with respect to small [under 50 lives] groups, types of benefits available, and underwriting, administrative, and marketing issues.

Description: In this session, the panelists describe the types of accident products currently being marketed and discuss a variety of issues related to product design, underwriting, and marketing. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 120PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists discuss the NAIC new loss ratio requirements for limited benefit [supplemental] health plans and companies' responses to these requirements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss pricing issues regarding supplemental products, which for this purpose, are defined as cancer, specified disease, student accident, and other special risk accident and health coverages. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.