Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Topics to be discussed include possible standards of practice relating to demutualizations and to changes to nonforeiture laws.

Description: This presentation from Session 20PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting examines the major trends in insurance laboratory testing from 1980 to 1985, with an emphasis on why blood testing thresholds were lowered dramatically in the mid-1980s and why those thresholds will persist into the next century. The value of liver function testing is examined as a case study in protective value. Issues addressed include: 1. What is the real impact of human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]-1 testing [sentinel effect]? 2. The unique pay-offs from liver function tests, 3. Clinical medicine mortality versus underwritten mortality: overcoming problems caused by different perspectives, and 4. Cotinine pays the freight? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Accruals in nonqualified retirement plans have become subject to FICA taxation. In this session, IRS rules are discussed in detail with emphasis on options available for good faith years through 1996 and final regulation years starting in 1997.

Description: This presentation from Session 4PD of the SOA 1996 Orlando Annual Meeting provides an update on the issues addressed and findings reached by the American Academy of Actuaries [AAA] work group responsible for Medical Savings Accounts [MSAs]. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses financial, strategic, and regulatory issues that arise from the combination of life insurance businesses through merger, acquisition, or reinsurance, with a special focus on the needs of mutual companies.

Description: This presentation uses a combination of lecture, case studies and computer modeling to introduce various approaches to estimation of Incurred But Not Reported IBNR liability. .From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Pension actuaries need data for setting assumptions, comparative information and technical analysis. This session focuses on what information is available, how to find it and how to use it. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss how clinicians and actuaries work together in a managed care environment and how they can serve as a resource to each other. Views are presented from both a clinician and an actuary.

Description: This presentation helps you prepare for the 1996 filing seasons and anticipate any additional information needs by reviewing the 1996 Schedule B. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: The panelinsts at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting present final results of the Group Long Term Disablility Experience Study and discuss the valuation and termination rate issues raised by the study.