Description: Overview on current trends in medical practice impacting the LTC insurance business with a focus on dementia, risk stratification, and predictive modeling.

Description: Discussion of the selling of life insurance to the middle income market through banks and with the support of new technologies and underwriting processes.

Description: Technological innovations are disrupting traditional business models, improving products, and enhancing the user experience.

Description: Interviews with several people about Living to 100 meant for them and their specialty. Includes financial planner, regulator, health and aging/community focus.

Description: The article gives specific information as to why insurance companies would want to participate in intercompany mortality studies. Product Development News, August 2000, Issue No. 50.

Description: The NAIC is expected to adopt the model regulation for the 2001 CSO table in late 2002. The question then becomes: how quickly will states adopt the table? In the absence of a push by the insurance industry, there is a chance that there may not be 26 state adoptions in 2003.

Description: NAIC Update on Issues Affecting Life and Annuity Product Development

Description: Discussion of growth in popularity of UL products designed to focus on the guarantee of death benefit protection rather than cash value accumulation and some of the pricing and reserving issues with respect to those products

Description: A discussion of how the tax law changes of 2003 might affect the attractiveness of variable annuity business relative to mutual funds and direct investments in dividend paying equities.

Description: Recent and upcoming changes to U.S. statutory reserving rules are expected to impact term insurance prices. This article is an analysis on what that impact might be.