Description: Discusses the need for a new life insurance valuation mortality table to replace the 1941 CSO, the authorization by the NAIC to form a committee to construct such a table, and the preliminary table developed.

Description: Covers aviation mortality obtained from the United States and Canadian governmental sources, both civilian and military. Recent data is from 1983 - 1984, but historical data is provided from 1975 forward.

Description: This is a listing of the newly revised 1972 Occupation and Hazardous Sports Codes. These will be used for experience studies and other purposes such as studies of markets and persistency experience.

Description: This note describes a mortality investigation procedure in which the expected mortality applicable to each new policy for a period of about three years after issue is estimated by use of persistency factors. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: This paper was presented at the 1957 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 21-22 in New York. The authors present the results of the fourth in a series of mortality studies of the experience of industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for successive periods since 1911. This report extends the series to 1955, with emphasis on mortality trends during the post war decade. Like the earlier reports covering the four decades ending with 1950, mortality trends among these insured lives for the more important causes of death according to age, sex, and race are presented. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957 Volume 9, Number 24.

Description: This 1976 report of The Committee on Aviation and Hazardous Sports provides mortality data from United States and Canadian governmental service, both civilian and military, supplemented by publications of the aviation industry.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that recent advances in calculating equipment make possible producing graduations much more elaborate than any done previously. The paper confines itself to the problem of graduating a single column of rates, such as an ultimate column, using a Whittaker-Henderson B graduation of the fourth order. The author provides a detailed description of the process with significant mathematical theory.

Description: This paper illustrated one approach to the calculation of reserves on group life conversions and alerts the reader to its possible favorable income tax implications under current United States law. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: This discussion looks at the conclusions drawn from the Double Indemnity Study in mortality rates, noting a wide variation between companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This report covers mortality statistics obtained from United States and Canadian governmental sources, both civilian and military, supplemented by publications of the aviation industry.