Description: Overview and rationale for this special issue of NewsDirect.

Description: Panelists discuss trends for the group short-term disability STD industry, as well as issues of timely relevance to group STD actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: Covers disability experience for employer/employee groups for the period 1975 - 1979.

Description: Panel discussion of alternative approaches to the design of reserve standards, to include those topics discussed in several recent papers and committee reports.

Description: Provides morbidity experience under individual loss-of-time policies during the full first year of the benefit period. Separate accident and sickness tables are included.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on individual disability insurance. Topics discussed include definitions of disability, review of experience, reserve adequacy, claim recognition, HIAA Special Disability Committee, presentation of Disability Termination Rates paper. 1979 Vol. 5 No. 3

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed new disability tables being proposed to the NAIC for valuation. Discussion covered history of the development of the tables and Barnhart's proposal for a change in method for determining the statutory minimum LTD open claim reserves.

Description: This article discusses the inadequacy of current disability insurance reserve tables due to higher claims in light of current economic conditions. The work of two SOA Task Forces, which are progressing toward new valuation tables, is highlighted.

Description: Describes the popularity and comprehensiveness of available mortality tables through Table Manager.

Description: This paper updates the predecessor 1971 Disability Table, takes into account major changes in the reported experience of the past decade, and corrects defects in the previous table's calculation of termination rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.