Description: This study used the Impairment Study Capture System (ISCS) to examine mortality results of policies, beginning in 1989, on insured lives with elevated blood pressure.

Description: Revised pages for the RP-2000 Mortality Tables Report dated April 2000.

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2004-05. This is the Excel Aggregate data pivot tables that provide more detail for policy years 2004-05. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: The influenza pandemic of 1918-20 is recognized as having generally taken place in three waves, starting in the northern spring and summer of 1918. This pattern of three waves, however, was not universal: in some locations influenza seems to have persisted into or returned in 1920. The recorded statistics of influenza morbidity and mortality are likely to be a significant understatement. Limitations of these data can include nonregistration, missing records, misdiagnosis, and nonmedical certification, and may also vary greatly between locations. Further research has seen the consistent upward revision of the estimated global mortality of the pandemic, which a 1920s calculation put in the vicinity of 21.5 million. A 1991 paper revised the mortality as being in the range 24.7-39.3 million. This paper suggests that it was of the order of 50 million. However, it must be acknowledged that even this vast figure may be substantially lower than the real toll, perhaps as much as 100 percent understated.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this experience update, which presents the 2015 through 2016 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. This update compares these most recent two years of available experience to the 2011-14 period and analyzes how the recent data affects aggregate annual mortality improvement in the group annuity experience data since 2007.

Description: This article gives a brief summary of an experience study on the frequency of simultaneous death claims among joint insureds.

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: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee RPEC of the Society of Actuaries SOA is a standing committee that monitors pension plan mortality experience. Most recently, the committee developed the RP-2000 mortality table. This table was the first published North American mortality table based solely upon private sector pension plan mortality experience. Previous tables developed by the RPEC such as GAR-94 and UP-94 were based primarily on a combination of group annuity, and U.S. federal employees and retirees mortality experience. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: Provides an in-depth review of Canadian occupational mortality and morbidity - disability - experience. This includes population and insured data up to 1981.