Description: This is a guide to underwriting literature which covers a broad range of underwriting issues and the actuary's role in underwriting.

Description: This is a panel discussion on individual life insurance underwriting principles and practices that occurred in 1976. It discussed a paper by Alton Morton entitled Individual Life Insurance Underwriting Principles and Practices: A 1976 Review.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified theory for the evaluation of underwriting requirements where this evaluation is based on the measurement of the levels of mortality costs associated with such requirements. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: This spreadsheet allows you to calculate the Underwriting Criteria Score, Relative Risk Ratios [RRR] and prevalence related to the RRR for one or more sets of underwriting criteria from a preferred risk underwriting program. The RRR may be used to determine the specific valuation mortality table to be applied to the particular underwriting risk class.It assists companies in calculating underwriting criteria scores as outlined in the Underwriting Criteria Team Report. Please see the SOA website for the full Underwriting Criteria TeamReport.

Description: Shows how to use personal information such as medical history, family characteristics, etc. in a logical statistical fashion for the purpose of modifying an existing mortality table to reflect the collected underwriting information.

Description: This article discusses whether or not the Preferred risk class wears off over time.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the trends in risk classification and selection criteria used for underwriting risks for individual life insurance. Use of various laboratory tests based on analysis of blood and urine samples is discussed.

Description: This report documents the work of the UCT with respect to development of an algorithm used to score preferred risk class structures, producing Relative Risk Scores and Prevalences. It is built for both knockout and debit-credit scoring methodologies.

Description: These assumption tables provide the range and cumulative values used in the Relative Risk Tool in the calculation of Relative Risk scores and Prevalence values.

Description: The attached report presents the results of the survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys on risk management practices of US life insurance companies. Both direct individual and group life insurance and reinsurance were included in the survey.