Description: This session provides actuaries who work with group life and disability products with the opportunity to participate in a moderated discussion with their colleagues. The specific topics will be those of interest to attendees, but are likely to include recent experience trends, product development, pricing and reserving.

Description: Discusses new valuation standards for credit disability insurance looking to be adopted by the NAIC.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that discusses the definition of forward rates in general and gives a generally valid definition of forward rates, and continues the work of Norberg (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, 47(2), 105-112), who made the first attempt to define general forward transition rates.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a U.S. Individual Disability Income Persistency Study. The report, authored by Cathy Ho and Steve Elek, presents the results of a study of individual disability income (“IDI”) lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2000 and 2007. This is the first report in a two-part series that will present results of a study conducted jointly by LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and based on data provided by 12 individual disability income insurance writers.

Description: One of the first projects undertaken by Claim Analytics was to create a model to predict return to work for group insurance claimants with long term disabilities. This report, sponsored in part by the Society of Actuaries Health Section , is a case study on creating such a model.

Description: This 1978 session focused on National Issues Involved in Loss-of-Time Coverage also known as disability insurance including Government plans and association and group plans and 2. The future of private loss-of-time insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This session discusses income replacement, or disability, policies. Topics include how they work, design alternatives, marketing, underwriting, regulation, past experience and future trends. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 8 No 3

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting covers individual disability including the definition of disability, occupational definitions, replacement ratios, social insurance offsets and contract provisions. It also reviews trends in product design and underwriting.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the current developments related to U.S. Social Security and the Canadian governmental disability programs and their impact on today's disability insurance market, financial underwriting for group and individual disability income products and new disability experience and valuation tables. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A