Description: For policies with and without the resotoration of benefits feature, compares incurred claims and statutory ALR for various benefit periods.

Description: This article investigates the survivorship benefit (commonly sold to couples), its effects and some of the more common options applied to this benefit.

Description: The implications of the new long-term care law for individuals, employers, insurers and providers, and the federal government.

Description: The implications of the new long-term care law for individuals, employers, insurers and providers, and the federal government.

Description: At this session of the SOA 1995 Vancourver Spring Meeting, members of the Long Term Care Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force present the conclusions and rationale found in their final report. Assumptions, methodology, and NAIC's view of the report are discussed.

Description: LTCi rate increases are large and becoming larger. As more and more policyholders cannot afford the cumulative impact, they need some relief - like access to the large contract reserve they have funded for the benefits they can no longer afford.