Description: This discussion at a SOA 1967 Regional Meeting covers individual life and health insurance topics including individual health loss of time coverages, life underwriting, reinsurance, individual annuity retirement plans in Canada, market testing new products.

Description: The Committee's charge was to develop new disability tables for possible adoption by appropriate authorities for valuation of individual policy reserves, i.e. active life reserves, and individual and group claim reserves for disabled lives. It was generally agreed that the current valuation table, the 1964 Commissioner’s Disability Table, ‘1964 CDT,’ was no longer appropriate for several reasons. This paper presents the detailed results of the committee's findings and their recommendations. From the 1985 Transactions, Vol. 37.

Description: The report of the Society of Actuaries' Committee to Recommend New Disability Tables for Valuation was presented to the Board of Governors on January 15, and was authorized for an exposure draft to Society members. An abridged section of the report was mailed to all members February 1.

Description: This paper by John Mereu describes a method for mathematically computing the expected loss under a group life contract in excess of a stated limit. The paper also shows how to compute the variance and standard deviation of the stop-loss claim and suggests how the method can be extended to group insurance benefits where the claim amount per certificate is not fixed. Paper is followed by discussions from several people

Description: This discussion addresses the following questions about health insurance maternity benefits: 1. What has been the claim, lapse, and expense experience on hospital-medical policies with maternity benefits issued to young married couples? 2. To what extent have hospital-medical policies been introduced with reduced maternity benefits during the early policy years or with no maternity benefits? 3. What other measures are being used to provide maternity benefits on a self-sustaining basis? 4. Are these measures effective? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: Reports generally display tables of data broken down by many variables. This paper presents a variation of the Whittaker-Henderson graduation method that may be used to graduate such multidimensional data. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This is a panel discussion session on new valuation tables for individual disability income insurance and reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: Panel member briefly review the collecting and analyzing of the data and the status of the disability valuation tables. They describe special characteristics of the proposed tables and compare the results with the CDT table and the most recent data published in the 1979 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: These discussions at the Jacksonville and Chicago SOA Regional Meetings looked at the issue of replacements focusing on policyholder rationale, types of plans involved and regulatory involvement.

Description: To meet requests, the Committee to Recommend New Disability Tables will have some experience termination rates printed in mid-June in the Disability Newsletter, No. 29 John Haynes Miller, Editor.