Description: This session discussion is about the valuations applicable to health business including cash flow analysis, scenario testing, and reserving. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Discusses professional statutory valuation standards, provides an update on the proposal of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF], and discusses minimum state requirements and federal income tax deductibility for reserves. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: This paper presents the findings of the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Individual Accident and Health Valuation Principles concerning statutory reserve standards for policy and claim reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses 3 papers: 'Report on Reserve Standards for Individual and Group Health Insurance Contracts' by the AAA Committee on Health, 'Reserve Principles for Individual Health Insurance' by the Committee for Accident and Health, and 'Structure for Consideration of Health Coverage Valuation Standards' by an NAIC Health Subcommittee of Standing Technical Advisory Group.

Description: Panelists discuss areas that actuaries must address as long-term-care insurance [LTCI] becomes a material portion of a company's business. These areas include IT problems, setting assumptions and reserves, surplus strain, and capital requirements. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 14OF of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This 1992 panel discussion is about the NAIC's proposed 'Guidelines for fling Premium Rates for Individual Accident and Health Insurance Companies.' Also discussed are the results of a survey of actuaries regarding proposed health rate filing guidelines that include higher loss ratios, guaranteed renewability, rate caps, and optional pre-filing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses health insurance including the topics of the Washington loss ratio report, problems which lead to regulatory difficulties later on, claims monitoring, setting claim reserves and pricing individual health policies.

Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium focuses on methods and considerations that are currently being used in analyzing various risks of concern to the health valuation actuary. The session looks at concepts and types of risks, considerations and influences affecting the actuary, formulas and methods for evaluating risk, and the present status of the health insurance valuation actuary concept.

Description: This session discusses affordable health care including cost drivers, trends, the uninsured, federal funding and state initiatives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 109

Description: This paper describes a modified development method for analyzing claims experience and calculating claim reserves and liabilities on short-term health insurance benefits. It identifies many of the influences on claim development and discusses various ways to recognize them. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.