Description: This paper examines mortality and if the improvements have been sufficient to show a need for a new legal standard and if experience of individual companies compare with recently published experience. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: This is a 1960 Report displaying the new code based on the Seventh Revision of the International List of Causes of Death published by the World Health Organization in 1957. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1960 Reports.

Description: Report includes a special study of the mortality experience of retirements under contingent annuitant options in addition to the regular matured life study that has been presented in prior years.

Description: Table of Contents.

Description: Study covered policies issued in the Caribbean area through 1963, exposed between 1959 and 1964 policy anniversaries. Study was made by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1966 Reports.

Description: The report is limited to a study of the experience of single life matured annuities under Group Annuity contracts. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1966 Reports.

Description: An analysis of population mortality at the older ages in the United States. The analysis is based principally on data obtained for calendar years 1968-69 in the operations of the Medicare program. In addition, the author develops mortality rates by single ages at the very high ages 85 and over, using the extinct cohort method based on deaths recorded through the vital statistics system in calendar years 1951-68.

Description: A paper analyzing cause of death population statistics. Discussion of sources of reporting data with respect to both occupation at death and cause of death especially when there are multiple causes. In the present paper the writer attributes much of the confusion in medical literature on mortality trends to the emphases placed on coronary disease as a cause of death. However, regarding the group of diseases known on the North American Continent as cardiovascular-renal disease the author establishes that the medical and other professions do experience a definitely higher mortality from this disease. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: Discusses valuation standards for payout annuities, and results of the a-1949 Mortality Table.

Description: The premise underlying the method illustrated is simply that, in a suit for damages based on earnings lost by reason of premature death or permanent disability, the value of future earnings should not be measured in terms of the whole of life but rather in terms of a more realistic work life expectancy.