Description: 1955 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Table of Contents

Description: This paper discusses experience under standard group hospital and surgical plans covering retirees and their dependents. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19, Pt. 1, No. 55.

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: 1957 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience Table of Contents

Description: This paper addresses some pervasive problems in using secondary data in actuarial research. An approach to solving these problems is based on information theory. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This discussion examines the following of the subject of Morbidity statistics: What solutions are being found for development of morbidity statistics to meet the needs of individual companies? What changes, if any, in the Society's role as a collection agency for morbidity experience can be made to expedite such development? What uses of Health Statistics developed from the 1957-58 US National Health Survey have been made? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This paper sets forth a standard of expected claim costs for Comprehensive Medical Expense plans together with the underlying rationale. This is known as the '1960 Tabular'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 41.

Description: This report presents the annual survey of long-term lapsation examining the experience of ordinary insurance, whole life and term insurance in Canada between the 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984 Reports

Description: In this paper, the coefficients of the minimum-Rz moving-weighted-average formulas are derived using matrix algebra and the method of Lagrange multipliers. Reviewer's note: This mathematics can be useful in the graduation process of mortality and morbidity table construction

Description: This report presents results from the study undertaken during 1993 and 1994 by the Direct Response Persistency and Mortality Task Force. Direct response product experience is presented for persistency, and mortality for both underwritten and guaranteed issue products.