Description: This paper considers recent accidental death mortality experience applicable to both ordinary life policies and other accident products, presents a possible new valuation accidental death benefits mortality table for U.S. business, and provides several sources for actuaries interested in more information about accidental death mortality.

Description: This report presents the findings of the 1970 report on mortality on policies with large amounts. This study covers the experience between policy anniversaries in 1963 and 1968 in the first twenty-five policy years of the issues of 1939 and 1967.

Description: This 1975 report presents the large-policy experience between policy anniversaries in 1968 and 1973 in the first twenty-five policy years after issue.

Description: This paper examines five problematic areas of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 including the 10-for-1 rule, the deduction for investment income on qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, limitations on certain deductions, policyholder surplus account and shareholders surplus account. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: The interest-adjusted method has come to be the most widely accepted method for comparing costs of individual life insurance policies. This paper presents a relatively simple modification of the interest-adjusted cost method that serves more general purposes satisfactorily. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1992: 1. 'Broken Promises: The Inside Story of the Failure of Executive Life' by Vic Modugno, 2. 'Within the System: My Half Century in Social Security' by Robert J. Myers, 3. 'Insurance Risk Models' by Harry H. Panjer and Godon E. Willmot, and 4. 'Social Security: What Every Taxypayer Should Know' by A. Haeworth Robertson. Notices of Social Security notes and studies are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol. 44.

Description: This discussion on overinsurance focuses on speculative buying of life, AD&D, and disability insurance, the effect of expanded disability provisions in the Social Security Act on underwriting disability benefits, and the avoidance of overinsurance in medical benefits.

Description: This paper was written at the suggestion of the Education and Examination Committee which expressed a need for review of recent developments in methods of dividend distribution. It may well be argued that there are no really new developments in the theory of distribution, but merely changes in practice represented by the introduction of various refinements in the dividend distribution process. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: This discussion looks at the advantages to an inclusion of a temporary war clause in all policies, factors affecting premiums for females, the SOA's stance on accident and health research, and the proposed new form of U.S. annual statements.

Description: This discussion on graded premiums looks at the effect of graded premiums on the volume of life insurance written, any problems which have developed from the operating, policyholder or agent perspective and emerging trends. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.