Description: In this article, the authors review the International Experience Study updates.

Description: Industry information about some tools and methods used by life insurance companies to mitigate the risk inherent in early duration claims.

Description: The Q&A’s contain additional background information on the development, application and impact of Scale BB. Scale BB was introduced in March 2012 as an interim mortality improvement scale which may be used by pension actuaries until work on a formal successor to the widely used improvement scale, Scale AA, is complete.

Description: This paper discusses and provides the 1958 CSO and CET Mortality Tables on the Age Last Birthday Basis.

Description: Lists the new cause of death codes, which replace the 1961 codes. This new code is based on the Eighth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization in 1967.

Description: This study used the Impairment Study Capture System (ISCS) to examine mortality results of policies, beginning in 1989, on insured lives with elevated blood pressure.

Description: This report is based on simplified issue [SI] products sold during 2004 but introduced before 2004. Twenty-seven companies responded, covering 48 products.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: Lists the experience studies on mortality, morbidity and lapses that are included in this publication plus a few research reports.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.