Description: The Committee's charge was to develop new disability tables for possible adoption by appropriate authorities for valuation of individual policy reserves, i.e. active life reserves, and individual and group claim reserves for disabled lives. It was generally agreed that the current valuation table, the 1964 Commissioner’s Disability Table, ‘1964 CDT,’ was no longer appropriate for several reasons. This paper presents the detailed results of the committee's findings and their recommendations. From the 1985 Transactions, Vol. 37.

Description: The premise underlying the method illustrated is simply that, in a suit for damages based on earnings lost by reason of premature death or permanent disability, the value of future earnings should not be measured in terms of the whole of life but rather in terms of a more realistic work life expectancy.

Description: This paper presents a disability continuance table based on industry individual policy experience to render it suitable as a standard for expected claims and for adjusted earnings purposes. Also includes discussion of the paper by John B. Cummings, Timothy A. Hinchliff, John H.Miller, R.Terry Nelson, John S.Thompson Jr., Eduard H.Minor

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Group Weekly Indemnity Continuation Table Study by Morton D. Miller. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 and has produced a report that provide a practical set of changes to the claim termination rates (CTRs) of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect key industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends over this time period. The goal was to have the resulting 2006-2014 IDIET in a workable format to facilitate its implementation.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. This report should be viewed as a supplement to the Individual Life Report. Many of the issues and conclusions in the Individual Life Report are equally applicable to individual disability insurance and are therefore not discussed herein. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: Study of long-term disability [LTD] claim-termination experience for the calendar years 1997 through 2006.

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: The article discovers that mortality is higher for females than for males at higher ages, and suggests "stress" as the explanation. It then discusses mental illness research, including recovery therefrom.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #1 SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.