Description: These assumption tables provide the range and cumulative values used in the Relative Risk Tool in the calculation of Relative Risk scores and Prevalence values.

Description: Paper discussing issues pertaining to setting and managing issue limits and reinsurance retention limits for life insurance.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Results of the recently completed survey on preferred risk criteria for individual ordinary life insurance are presented, with a discussion of limitations of results and implications for pricing actuaries, underwriters and reinsurers.

Description: Panelists discuss recent trends in individual life mortality experience, especially for preferred risks, and the impact of agent selection and underwriting exceptions on a company's mortality results. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This paper studies mortality differences between right and left-handed professional baseball players by examining the times of, and ages of, death of more than 6,000 players who died before 1990.

Description: Presents the 1968 data for aviation deaths.

Description: Discusses: [1] using blood tests effectively to improve mortality results, [2] using expert underwriting systems, and [3] what the future may hold for genetic underwriting. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This panel discussion session looked at recent and proposed regulation of life insurance underwriting. Specific topics included: i. Problems with traditional underwriting classifications: privacy, disclosure, anti-discrimination, etc. 2. New and acceptable classifications: smoking, lifestyle, build, blood pressure, finances, etc. 3. Possible transition problems: existing policies, persistency, coordination of previous data with newer classes, etc.

Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.