Description: Discussion of the separate and joint effects of obesity and diabetes on disability and mortality, and ways these effects can be used to improved insurance pricing and reserving, reverse the increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, and improve current projections of disability and mortality risks.

Description: This is the preface for the 1978 report of the Committee on Group Life and Health Insurance. The products covered: 1. Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance. 2. Group Long-Term Disability Insurance.

Description: Preface to the reports on Group Weekly Indemnity and Group Long Term Disability.

Description: This is an updated experience study for individual loss-of-time policies from 1972-1973. Annual claim rates, average claim distributions, and annual claim costs are shown for accident disability, sickness disability, and total sickness and accident disability. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1975 Reports

Description: Preface to the Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance and the Group Long Term Disability Insurance studies.

Description: Preface for the Group Weekly Indemnity study.

Description: This paper presents and discusses the 1952 inter-company study of the experience under certain ordinary disability benefits between the 1930 and 1950 anniversaries. From TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES, 1954 VOL. 6 NO. 14.

Description: The Product Development Section has recently sponsored research on waiver of premium and waiver of charges riders. Waiver riders are commonly offered as optional benefits or included automatically on individual life insurance policies as an integrated benefit. In the event of disability, a waiver rider may waive future life insurance premium due or contribute an amount to a flexible account, such as the average premium paid over the past year or the cost of insurance charges. Despite the prevalence of these riders, the current valuation standard is still the 1952 Society of Actuaries (SOA) Disability Table.

Description: The Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) of the SOA has gathered industry data covering 2006-2015. The presenters will highlight findings on the recent industry experience compared to the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT), including the impact of the recession on incidence and terminations. They will cover claim incidence and claim termination Actual to Expected (A/E) using 2013 IDIVT as the expected basis. The adequacy of the modifiers will also be discussed.

Description: The Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) of the SOA has gathered industry data covering 2006-2015. This sessions will highlights their findings on the recent industry experience compared to the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT), including the impact of the recession on incidence and terminations. The audience will gain an understanding of how the recent industry experience compares to the most recent valuation table. The session will cover claim incidence and claim termination Actual to Expected (A/E) using 2013 IDIVT as the expected basis. The adequacy of the modifiers will also be also be discussed.