Description: This investigation was undertaken to determine what the electrocardiogram and X-ray, if used routinely, would contribute to the selection of risks with an elevated blood pressure, and to test the accuracy of our impression that women tolerate hypertension better than men.

Description: Covers experience from 1973 - 1978 on nonsmoker mortality to be used by the NAIC and its Technical Advisory Committee as a basis for developing interim valuation standards for nonsmoker ordinary business. Interim scaling factors to be applied to specified valuation mortality tables are also provided to develop smoker and non-smoker valuation mortality.

Description: This paper demonstrates the calculation of the moments of the distribution of aggregate life insurance claims from seriatim inforce data, assuming that each record represents an independent Bernoulli trial with its own known probability of a claim, q. Continuous distributions matching the first three or four moments are identified.

Description: In setting future mortality assumptions for pricing, the actuary needs to consider not only recent results and recent annualized mortality improvements, but also must look at the possible impact of possible shocks epidemics, wars, etc.

Description: Discussion of the latest report of the Individual Life Experience Committee ILEC Mortality for Standard Individually Underwritten Life Insurance Between 2005 and 2007 Policy Anniversaries.

Description: This is a discussion on the paper of the same name.

Description: Covers the experience from 1978 to 1983 policy anniversaries for individual life insurance.

Description: Provides study results for both medically and non-medically underwritten business. Gender analysis is also provided for the period between the 1956 - 1961 anniversaries. Cause of death analysis is provided for the period between the 1959 - 1961 anniversaries, for which gender splits are also provided.

Description: Covers the experience between policy anniversaries in 1973 - 1978 in the first twenty-five policy years after issue i.e., 1949 - 1977. For issues of 1974 and later the classification 'large amount' refers to policies of $100,000 or more prior to 1974 the classification includes policies of $50,000 or more.

Description: This article discusses the utilization of credibility concepts to reinsurer-cedant moratality analysis.