Description: This discussion addresses the following questions about health insurance maternity benefits: 1. What has been the claim, lapse, and expense experience on hospital-medical policies with maternity benefits issued to young married couples? 2. To what extent have hospital-medical policies been introduced with reduced maternity benefits during the early policy years or with no maternity benefits? 3. What other measures are being used to provide maternity benefits on a self-sustaining basis? 4. Are these measures effective? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: This is a discussion about substandard mortality vs. standard mortality and the effects it will have on substandard premiums. Topics included: A. Statistical evidence on the trend of substandard mortality. Does it generally follow the trend of standard mortality? B. Effect this should have on substandard extra premiums. C. Does a lowering of substandard extras require any changes in underwriting rules, either as to the range of substandard classes or as to the ratings applied to some of the major impairments?

Description: This is a discussion about 1959 Act dealing with federal income tax on life insurance companies. Specific topics include: A. Impact the new tax law has had on: i the investment policies of individual companies, ii company accounting systems and procedures, iii actuarial bases for new contracts? B. What principles have been followed in allocating the federal income tax among the annual statement lines of business? How is the assessment to a line of business with a loss from operations established? Is the tax on the interest on surplus allocated on some general basis or with regard to the relative contributions of the different lines to the accumulated surplus? C. How is the tax taken into account in asset share tests and dividend scale determinations?

Description: This is a discussion of recent experience for companies of first year lapses, surrenders at policy durations with appreciable cash values, total voluntary terminations and factors which contribute to current lapses and surrenders. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.

Description: This discussion looks at The Build and Blood Pressure Study and the effect build and blood pressure have on mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This discussion looked at the recent mortality experience under term insurance plans before and after conversion, as well as evidence of a reversion to the experience of the 1920's and early 1930's in the mortality on large risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discussed the investment year method. Considerations with respect to taxes, capital gains and line of business other than group annuity were discussed.

Description: This is the digest from the informal discussion reviewing the 1951 Impairment study. It is the latest in a series of studies covering mortality of impaired risks. It covers the experience under Ordinary insurance issued from 1935 to 1949 traced to the anniversaries in 1950. Standard and substandard policies were studied separately.

Description: This paper raises the following questions regarding mortality and underwriting: How does mortality under term insurance compare with that under permanent insurance? To what extent should large amounts of accidental death benefits be a matter of underwriting concern? What are the pros and cons of issuing triple indemnity benefits as an adjunct of life insurance policies? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.