Description: This reports on a survey that looks at the mortality experience of Industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the postwar years of 1946 to 1950. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: Discussion of the mortality experience of the Korean War. The purpose of this paper to present some statistics and point out variations in the hazard that might that might be of value in setting up rules for the underwriting of military risks.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that in mortality studies the ‘natural’ unit for exposures and deaths is number of lives, but often more insight is gained by use of other weights, such as face amount. In this paper, the author develops a method which, ‘by a combination of exposed to risk formulas, provides a comparatively simple procedure to permit consideration of weights which vary during the observation period.’

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss the reliability of the indications of the 1954 Committee Report, and the possible effects of inflation, economic activity, and the growing popularity of business insurance. They also discuss what changes in limits and underwriting policies for large amounts may be indicated. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This discussion looks at the conclusions drawn from the Double Indemnity Study in mortality rates, noting a wide variation between companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' by Charles M. Sternhell.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the studies made leading to the construction of the new valuation table and the 1961 minimum gross premium rates for group term life insurance.

Description: This paper describes the analysis made of the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table and introduces the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table along with revised mortality rate projection scales. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This paper develops and presents a complete set of select mortality rates, for all issue ages, derived from the rates generally for five-year issue age groupings presented in the 1982 Reports for the 1975-80 Basic Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986, Vol. 38.

Description: Report covering the intercompany experience under standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1950 and 1951 anniversaries.