Description: Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease as a potential Critical Illness insurance benefit trigger.

Description: Life insurers offer Juvenile riders or low face amount whole life plans. The market is seeking multimillion dollar juvenile policies. What are the risks?

Description: Article discussing a research project to determine the risk selection efficacy of e-underwriting in conjunction with the use of e-data such as MIB, MVR and prescription med history.

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: Panelists will discuss considerations identified and the challenges encountered by companies in developing and using predictive models in the life insurance underwriting process.

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

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