Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.

Description: This is a discussion about underwriting and claims experience for long-term diability benefits. Topics include offsets, impact of economy and reserves. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 2, No. 47 AB

Description: Covers disability experience for employer/employee groups for the period 1975 - 1979.

Description: Covers the experience for the year 1981. Part 1 provides experience for the first year of the benefit period and part 2 provides the 2nd and 3rd year experience.

Description: This paper discusses the purpose and nature of the benefit ratio [otherwise known as active life] reserve in relation to the class of health insurance contracts to which it is intended to apply. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 1.

Description: This is the 1978 report of the experience under certain ordinary waiver of premium benefits between 1959 and 1974 anniversaries.

Description: A 1981 two-part study covering experience under individual loss-of-time policies in the first and second years of the benefit period.

Description: Preface to the reports on Group Weekly Indemnity and Group Long Term Disability.

Description: This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial profession. Reviews: 'Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival' by Singer and Levinson, 'The Theory and Practice of Pension Funding' by Trowbridge and Farr, 'Two Stochastic Processes' by Beekman, 'Disability Income Insurance - Cost Differentials between Men and Women' by New York Insurance Department, 'Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary' by McGill, 'A New Look at Accounting for Pension Costs' by Hall and Landsittel, '1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...,' 'Investigation of Sickness Statistics - Individual Policies, 1971 and 1973' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'The Graduation of Pensioners and of Annuitants Mortality Experience 1967-70' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'Pensions and Survival - the Coming Crisis of Money and Retirement' by Calvert, 'Group Benefits in a Changing Society' by Spencer, 'Experience of Disabled Work Benefits under OASDI 1965-74' by Bayo and Wilkin. Digests also included.

Description: In this paper, a format for a two-dimensional actual-to-expected report based on terminations from disability claim status is presented. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.