Description: This article discusses David Garrick Halmstad and his ten volumes from the Skandia Insurance Group's International Symposia on various medical impairments. While many of the papers in the volumes are of interest primarily to medical directors, there are some in each volume dealing with epidemiology and statistics that could be of interest to actuaries. As an example there are papers on alcohol consumption which are discussed in detail in this article.

Description: Summary of the recently constructed 1967 Canadian Ordinary experience tables which, for the first time, were constructed separately for males and females.

Description: This is an example of male life expectancy at age 65 from the United States.

Description: This article discusses the crossover of mortality rates around age 81 after which age nonwhite mortality is lower than white mortality and presents the best age statement data available from Medicare statistics.

Description: This article discusses two sets of blended by sex 1980 CSO mortality tables for use in determining minimum cash values and nonforfeiture benefits for life insurance policies issued in employee benefit plans which, because of the Norris decision, must provide equal benefits to men and women.

Description: The article is an editorial on annuitant mortality over sixty years, 1923, 1943, 1963 and 1983.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 7 that in response to an editorial on Moslem insurance, the author references a story in the Bible about a Stationary Population Problem

Description: This is an article that was written by the chairman of the committee that developed 1983 Table a, which NAIC has adopted for individual annuity valuation. This article compares the mortality rates in the 1983 Table a with those of two prior annuity tables.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 about Ulpian's Table, a table of life expectancies dating from about 220 A.D.

Description: This article briefly summarizes the exposure draft recently issued by the Society of Actuaries' Task Force on Smoker/Non-Smoker Mortality.