Description: This abstract describes a paper that discusses the definition of forward rates in general and gives a generally valid definition of forward rates, and continues the work of Norberg (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2010, 47(2), 105-112), who made the first attempt to define general forward transition rates.

Description: Discusses new valuation standards for credit disability insurance looking to be adopted by the NAIC.

Description: Covers 1980 experience under individual loss-of-time policies in the first and second years of the benefit period, and historical data is shown from 1974 forward.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a U.S. Individual Disability Income Persistency Study. The report, authored by Cathy Ho and Steve Elek, presents the results of a study of individual disability income (“IDI”) lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2000 and 2007. This is the first report in a two-part series that will present results of a study conducted jointly by LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and based on data provided by 12 individual disability income insurance writers.

Description: One of the first projects undertaken by Claim Analytics was to create a model to predict return to work for group insurance claimants with long term disabilities. This report, sponsored in part by the Society of Actuaries Health Section , is a case study on creating such a model.

Description: This article highlights what makes disabled people return to work and gives examples of how flexible claims services can operate in a cost efficient manner.

Description: This session discussion is about individual disability income, morbidity, field compensation expenses, persistency, and investment income. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists will present the results of an intercompany study of disability income reserve practices, dealing with issues such as reserve bases, reserve margins for active and disabled lives, reserve adequacy testing, valuation of riders such as cost of living adjustment, ‘COLA,’ residual, and social insurance, and tax reserves. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This paper derives exact expressions for the ultimate ruin probability and establishes the effect of correlation on ruin probability using the Wiener-Hopf factorization.