Summary
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute’s Group Disability Experience Committee (GDEC) and LIMRA have jointly conducted a study of group long-term disability claim termination experience covering calendar years 2015 through 2024. This is an update to the prior study covering calendar years 2009 through 2017. The intent of this study is to provide recent claim termination experience which can be compared to the 2008 Long-Term Disability Experience Table and the previous study. Eighteen companies contributed data to the current study, encompassing over 90% of industry sales during the study period. The current study encompasses over 43 million life-months exposed, approximately 937,000 recoveries, and over 181,000 deaths over a ten-year period.
Public Materials
A report with high-level insights will be available in late 2026.
Standard Data Package
The Standard Data Package is available for purchase and consists of:
- Executive summary
- In-depth analysis report
- Interactive data visualization dashboards
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This study is included with a 2026 subscription to Experience Studies Pro. The studies included in the 2026 subscription are:
- 2015-2024 Deferred Annuity Mortality
- 2015-2024 Group Long-Term Disability Claim Termination
- 2009-2024 Post-Level Term Lapse and Mortality
- 2018-2024 Individual Life Mortality
- 2024-2025 Registered Index-Linked Annuity Policyholder Behavior
- 2020-2024 Individual Payout Annuity Mortality
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Acknowledgments
LIMRA and the SOA Research Institute would like to thank the following companies for participating in the study by supplying data.
- Aflac
- American Fidelity
- Dearborn
- Equitable Financial
- Fullscope RMS (Voya/ING)
- Guardian Life of America
- Hartford Life/Aetna
- Lincoln Financial Group
- Mutual of Omaha Companies
- New York Life
- NW Mutual (via Standard)
- OneAmerica (AUL)
- Principal Financial Group
- Prudential of America
- Reliance Matrix
- Standard (NW Mutual)
- Symetra Financial
- Unum
LIMRA and the SOA Research Institute would also like to thank the SOA Group Disability Experience Committee for their diligent work developing the data request, overseeing the analysis and reviewing of the report and dashboards for accuracy and relevance.
- Kathy Davis, FSA, MAAA (Chair)
- Arber Dhamo, ASA, MAAA (Vice-Chair)
- Kelly Ayer, FSA, MAAA
- Jay Barriss, FSA, MAAA
- Maxwell Berube, FSA, MAAA
- Leo Carrier, ASA
- Thomas Corcoran, FSA, MAAA, CERA
- Adam Eggert, ASA, MAAA
- Daniel Fix, FSA, MAAA
- Frederick Flores, FSA, MAAA
- Eric Gale, FSA
- Luce Giroux, FSA, MAAA, FCIA
- Dennis Goebel, ASA, MAAA
- Thomas Hinrichs, FSA, MAAA
- Achal Kansupada, FSA, MAAA
- Patrick Keough, FSA, MAAA
- Tasha Khan, FSA, MAAA
- Richard Leavitt
- Ryan Ouellette, FSA, MAAA
- Patrick Wallner, FSA, MAAA