Description: This teaching session provides a summary of publicly available data and information sources for health actuaries. Several of the more useful resources are reviewed in detail. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 15

Description: This article provides an overview of critical illness insurance: history, product description, and the three primary ways to offer critical illness coverage in the United States. This article also contains an illustration of an issue age premium rate calculation, as well as product features and rating applications specific to the various types of critical illness coverage.

Description: The Society's Group Disability Insurance Experience Committee has completed their study of termination experience for the period 2009-2017. Included is a preliminary report, consolidated database (CDB), pivot tables and appendices.

Description: This is the Committee's first report on the experience under individual medical expense policies. The study covers the combined experience of the calendar years 1960 and 1961 on individually underwritten policies of all types with some exceptions. From Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, 1963 Reports.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. The first report on a study of bond investment results of life insurance companies with high-yield bond portfolios was presented at this session. The study, covering years 1986-92, was commissioned by the Society of Actuaries Ufe Insurance Practice Research Committee.

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in Canada between 1987 and 1988 policy anniversaries.

Description: This article contains a summary of the SOA International Experience Survey of Embedded Value Financial Assumptions. Topics surveyed include discount rate, equity return, fixed return, local government return, inflation, and tax rates.

Description: This is the SOA 1991 large claims database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for group health for further information about the specifications for this database. The Committee on Health Benefit Systems Research is pleased to announce the availability of the 1991-92 Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database. The database includes more than 171,000 claims of $25,000 or more, representing over $10 billion in total charges. Fields include diagnosis 3digit ICD-9 code, type of coverage HMO, PPO, Indemnity, etc., claimant status employee or dependent, and charges split into hospital and non-hospital, in addition to claimant age and gender.

Description: Discuss policyholder behaviors that evolve throughout the life cycle of a typical VA annuitant, with supporting data from industry-level experience studies during this interaction session. The following behavior assumptions and their implication under accounting/regulatory requirements will be covered: - Separate account/fixed account allocation and transfers - Deposits - Surrenders - Withdrawals - Income utilization - Mortality By attending the session, you will: - Identify policyholder behaviors that would transform at different stages of life cycle. - Understand key aspects of industry-level policyholder behavior experience. - Form a dynamic view in the assumption setting.

Description: London's book supersedes the graduation monograph of Morton D. Miller and T.N.E. Greville’s Study Note on the Society of Actuaries’ syllabus. Although London's book covers much the same methods as did the predecessors, he adds emphasis to the Bayes Theorem and also emphasizes techniques making good use of personal computers.