Description: Table of Contents to the 1951 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity.

Description: This paper addresses some pervasive problems in using secondary data in actuarial research. An approach to solving these problems is based on information theory. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This report presents a new set of select and ultimate expected individual life insurance lapse tables, based on inter-company experience of standard ordinary business between 1971-1972 policy anniversaries. Discussion includes overview of how the data was collected and how the tables were constructed and how they should be applied in practice.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘A New Remarriage Table,’ by A. M. Niessen, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to Mr. Niessen’s paper, which is based on his studies of widows’ remarriage rates.

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Presents credibility formulas that are designed to be specifically applicable to group insurance, and which are based on group size and are adjustable for changes in group membership, etc. The practical motivation and use of these formulas are discussed.

Description: Report on the conversion rates of group term life insurance to permanent ordinary or individual life insurance policy upon termination of employment.

Description: This report presents the annual survey of long-term lapsation examining the experience of ordinary insurance, whole life and term insurance in Canada between the 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984 Reports

Description: Introduction to and list of reports presented in the 1993-94 Transactions Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience.

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in the U.S. between 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries.