Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discussed current underwriting issues including the numerical rating system, mortality experience, and underwriting for pilots and immigrants.

Description: It was Santayana who said that those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. So in order to protect our present and future readers we will report a segment of actuarial history which may not be well known. Our readers will make their own judgments and maybe the Program Committee will find the recital of some help.

Description: Article Editorial by Webster in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: These are the reports of the following committees: the Committee to Study Pension Plan Problems, the Committee to Study Pension Accounting, the Educations and Examination Committee, the Committee on Professional Conduct, the Committee on Status and Accreditation and a report on 'The Actuary'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No 53.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the ordinary insurance underwriting topics of “guaranteed issue” and potential antiselection of business insurance vs. personal insurance at time of retirement.

Description: There is a story, probably apocryphal, about The Marriage of Figaro, that Mozart, just before the curtain went up on the first performance, discovered that he had omitted to furnish an overture. Nothing daunted, he sat down and in no time flat dashed off the score of the overture.

Description: Actuarial Humor

Description: This discussion looks deeper into selection and policy issue. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: Discusses underwriting classification trends, term vs. permanent mortality experience with and without medical exams, mortality and lapse experience of military personnel, factors in addition to insurability which should be taken into account by underwriters - such as lapse risk. Also discussed are health underwriting and underwriting expenses.

Description: Adlai Stevenson is reported to have described the duties of an editor as separating the wheat from the chaff and throwing away the wheat. Perhaps this emphasis on the chaff is one reason why we have frequent difficulties in determining the actual month of issue. On the other hand, the editors ally themselves with Jack Point who said “O winnow all my folly and you’ll find a grain or two of truth among the chaff.”