Description: Proposes setting premiums such that inflation and age could change the premium over time, rather than prefunding. The value may be to change the approach to pricing LTC and improve the risk.

Description: The author analyzes why LTCi is so risky, capital-intensive and unprofitable, and then makes the case that if we rethink the fundamental way a stand-alone LTCi should work, it can be transformed into a successful product.

Description: Update on LTC Section activities and other issues from the perspective of a Society of Actuaries' staff actuary.

Description: Review of LTC Industry

Description: Chairperson's update on the Long-Term Care Insurance Section .

Description: The basics and importance of the utilization assumption for long-term care insurance.

Description: New insurance product concept to cover elder care

Description: From past to present, this article discusses what has happened in rate increase litigation, and how we got to where we are now. The article also discusses a possible "future" wave of rate increase litigation for insurers and counsel to be aware of as they move forward with rate increases in the future.

Description: Read the February 2020 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long-Term Care Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.