Description: This paper raises the following questions regarding mortality and underwriting: How does mortality under term insurance compare with that under permanent insurance? To what extent should large amounts of accidental death benefits be a matter of underwriting concern? What are the pros and cons of issuing triple indemnity benefits as an adjunct of life insurance policies? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this experience update, which presents the 2015 through 2016 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. This update compares these most recent two years of available experience to the 2011-14 period and analyzes how the recent data affects aggregate annual mortality improvement in the group annuity experience data since 2007.

Description: This group annuitant mortality 1968 report is limited to a study of the experience of single life matured annuities under Group Annuity contracts.

Description: This report contains a summary of aviation statistics for years 1940-1960, specifically mortality data for different classes of pilots and others.

Description: This report examines historical U.S. motor vehicle accident mortality experience by age, gender, region, and other factors.

Description: This paper has a brief description of concluded investigations for mortality and morbidity for group life insurance, disability claims, group accident and health insurance and group annuity. The actual studies are published separately from this paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: Guaranteed Issue mortality valuation tables, report, and definition.

Description: In recent years, insurance companies have been cautiously accepting applicants with a history of coronary disease, and the difficulties of selection and rating have been added to those of diagnosis. As a result of this new interest, several mortality studies have been made in an attempt to find answers to the pertinent questions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: This paper discusses mortality classes, the homogeneity or lack of homogeneity of the mortality classes and the rates of deterioration of the classes. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.