Description: In today's growing supplemental health space, innovative benefit offerings are essential for both marketability and market competition. Discuss the latest trends in accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plan design, as well as the regulatory hurdles that can be involved when implementing these new benefits.

Description: What learnings and challenges did 2023 Long Duration Targeting Improvement (LDTI) adopters experience? What's ahead for 2025 adopters? And how do companies leverage LDTI to improve data and analytics and benefits operations? Join the session for a deep dive into what's next on the horizon.

Description: A call for project proposals to study the impacts of climate-induced migration on various areas which can influence the delivery of services and availability of insurance coverages.

Description: This webcast provides an overview of the key provisions of the recently enacted SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, which significantly changed the rules that apply to qualified retirement plans and IRAs. The presenters will examine a history of the legislation and focus on some of the key provisions of the Act. In particular, we will discuss provisions that give individuals more flexibility on how they will contribute to their retirement accounts and provisions that provide new ways for individuals to save. Explore certain significant structural changes to the rules such as the automatic enrollment for new plans and the elimination of lifetime RMDs for designated Roth accounts. The panel will also focus on the provisions that provide greater access to retirement funds through new distribution exceptions and how this might affect a company’s reporting obligations. Come learn about some of the relief provisions included in SECURE 2.0, including an expanded EPCRS program to cover errors relating to IRAs.

Description: A summary of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the NAIC Spring 2025 National meeting

Description: An attorney and a statistician will discuss the latest on GenAI, the AI regulation and litigation affecting the use of AI in insurance.

Description: Traditional Medicare [TM] has many coverage gaps and no out-of-pocket maximum. Most members must purchase a Medicare Supplement Plan and a Part D plan for pharmacy coverage. Over 50% of members have opted for a Medicare Advantage [MA] plan that replaces TM and the need to purchase a Supplement and (in most cases) a Part D plan. All this for less cost to the member, but at a greater overall cost to the federal government even though MA plans provide TM benefits for less than it costs the government. The attendee will learn why this occurs. However, given these facts, the focus of the session will be on the future of Medicare: namely, should the parameters regarding MA bids and payments be limited to what is paid for TM, or can we take the best administrative techniques of MA and TM to provide more robust benefits for all Medicare members at a cost no greater than the government is currently paying? Or is there an even better idea?

Description: This is an article providing a summary of the SOA Research Institute's participation in an NAIC meeting that took place in December 2022. This article will also be disseminated via the SOA News Weekly, linking to the article posted on soa.org.

Description: An article recapping the SOA's participation in the NAIC Summer 2023 meeting.

Description: Prescription drug markets are undergoing rapid change - significant policy changes implemented through the Inflation Reduction Act, Congressional interest in long-awaited 340b reform, and a growing direct-to-consumer market have already changed the landscape significantly. The ongoing effects of these changes will continue to evolve for many years. Hear from leading prescription drug actuaries and pharmacy policy experts on what these changes mean for prescription drug markets and US healthcare more broadly.