Description: This piece is a discussion of Mel Stein's paper entitled, 'A New Approach to the Calculation of Active Life Disability Reserves.'

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.

Description: This report has been assembled by the Task Force as a comprehensive guide to practicing actuaries in evaluating the impact of AIDS on the solvency of life and health insurance companies in the US and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: Preface for the Group Weekly Indemnity study.

Description: This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial profession. Reviews: 'Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival' by Singer and Levinson, 'The Theory and Practice of Pension Funding' by Trowbridge and Farr, 'Two Stochastic Processes' by Beekman, 'Disability Income Insurance - Cost Differentials between Men and Women' by New York Insurance Department, 'Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary' by McGill, 'A New Look at Accounting for Pension Costs' by Hall and Landsittel, '1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...,' 'Investigation of Sickness Statistics - Individual Policies, 1971 and 1973' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'The Graduation of Pensioners and of Annuitants Mortality Experience 1967-70' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'Pensions and Survival - the Coming Crisis of Money and Retirement' by Calvert, 'Group Benefits in a Changing Society' by Spencer, 'Experience of Disabled Work Benefits under OASDI 1965-74' by Bayo and Wilkin. Digests also included.

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

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: This paper discusses social insurance supplement - SIS insurance which is a disability income policy rider that pays an additional benefit on disability if the insured is not receiving benefits from a social program. It provides one possible framework for the actuarial structure of the product. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

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

Description: This paper was written to provide a new flexible approach to the calculation of active life disability net premiums and reserves that is easily adaptable to modern computerized systems. A new set of commutation functions is presented.