Description: The goal of this paper is to develop best possible estimates for the higher moments of a distribution of a positive bounded random variable, such as claim amounts, where these estimates are given in terms of the mean.

Description: Digest of a panel discussion looking at problems arising in issuing limited amounts of life insurance without a war clause to active members of the Armed Forces, types of death losses the Actuary considers as war deaths not suited for in existing premium rates and problems created by the war from the standpoint of protective provisions in disability and accidental death clauses.

Description: This section discusses several insurance-related legal cases from 1953 including: 1. STATUTE REQUIRING APPLICATION TO BE ATTACHED EFFECT OF ATTACHING EXTRA PAPER: Nacchio v. New York Life Insurance Company 2. DATE Or LAPSEPoLICY NOT EFFECTIVE UNTIL DELIVERY: Pyramid Life Insurance Company vs. Williams 3. DOUBLE INDEMNITYWAIVER AND ESTOPPELINSURER'S FAILURE TO INFORM INSURED POLICY WAS NOT ISSUED AS APPLIED FOR: Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society vs. Counts 4. KILLING OF INSURED BY HEIRINHERITANCE OF POLICY PROCEEDS: Strickland vs. Wysowatcky, 5. PREMIUM TAXES-RETALIATION: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Parkinson, 6. AGENT AS BENEFICIARY-CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP: Fifield vs. Crowe, 7. MISREPRESENTATION As TO OCCUPATION AND HABITSPROFESSIONAL GAMBLER: DeBellis vs. United Benefit Life Insurance Company, 8. WAR EXCLUSION-UNDECLARED WAR: Beley vs. Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company, 9. DOUBLE INDEMNITYAVIATION EXCLUSIONMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows, 10. STATF LIFE FUNDREJECTION OF ALL COLORED APPLICANTS: Lange vs. Rancher

Description: Covers individual life mortality experience between 1980 - 1981 anniversaries and 1976 - 1981 anniversaries.

Description: Discussion about: A. New forms of policies and riders, and new options which have been introduced and their level of success, B. Changes in the use of: i Settlement options? ii Special conversion options? iii Automatic premium loans? C. Recent changes in settlement option bases D. The experience of smaller companies with respect to replacement problems, and compliancecwith state replacement regulations? Discussion about new forms of policies, changes in the use of settlement options and what other smaller companies are doing about replacement problems.

Description: This purpose of this paper is to furnish management of smaller companies with small company experience. This includes a comparison between medical and non-medical business and the maintaining of a continuous investigation procedure. This paper additionally determines experience rates of mortality for dividend purposes. Experience by cause of death is also provided.

Description: This panel discussion looks at the practicality of a company to undertake its own studies in connection with persistency, mortality, morbidity, agency compensation and the significance of the results. Effectiveness of budgets in reducing expenses are also examined. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This paper looks at the following cases: 1. DOING BUSINESS BY MAIL SERVICE OF PROCESS: Travelers Heath Association v. Virginia, 2. AVIATION EXCLUSION FAILURE OF INSURED TO SIGN RESTRICTIVE RIDER: McDaniel v. California-Western States Life Insurance Company, 3. WAR RIDER WAIVER BY ACCEPTANCE OF PREMIUMS: White v. New York Life Insurance Company, 4. MISREPRESENTATION IN APPLICATION MINORS BINDING EFFECT: Modern Woodmen of America v. Stevens, 5. DISABILITY BENEFITS INSANITY AS EXCUSING NOTICE: Chagnon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 6. AGENTS' COMPENSATION AMOUNT NOT AGREED TO IN ADVANCE: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Durkin, 7. GOVERNMENT ALLOTMENTPAYMENT OF PREMIUMS IN ERROR: Atlas Life Insurance Company v. Davis, 8. EFFECTIVE DATESUBSTANDARD INSURANCE: Republic National Life Insurance Company v. Hall.

Description: Covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance between 1978 and 1979 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1974 and 1979 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: Covers 1983 - 1984 and 1979 - 1984 anniversaries mortality experience for individual life insurance.