Description: The Society's Group Disability Insurance Experience Committee has completed their study of termination experience for the period 2009-2017. Included is a preliminary report, consolidated database (CDB), pivot tables and appendices.

Description: Experience report for life insurance policies with face amounts of $1 million or higher.

Description: Presenters will discuss mortality improvement as it applies to various lines of business with an emphasis on how individual life findings can be used to fine tune group life assumptions. In particular, it is important to know that there is not a single percentage of annual mortality improvement. Rather, experience shows that the rate of mortality improvement varies by factors such as attained age and target market.

Description: This report presents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2009 and 2013. Lapse experience is analyzed for whole life, term life, universal life, and variable universal life plans issued between 1918 and 2012. Results for most key policy and product factors are examined.

Description: CMS provides a significant, and growing amount of information that can be leveraged by actuaries. Between the public use and research files CMS makes publicly available large amounts of information that can be assimilated to begin to understand the who, what, when, where, and how of Medicare. This session will focus on the depth and breadth of data available, summarize any restrictions on the use of the data, and identify areas where access to the new data can provide more meaningful insights than CMS's historical data sets.

Description: Critical Illness Insurance is one of the fastest growing insurance products available today. Carriers continue to introduce innovative approaches in second, third, and fourth generation products while refining their pricing, underwriting, and claims adjudication processes. This session will look back at historical trends using Gen Re's longstanding, comprehensive Critical Illness Market Survey, and look forward to potential market changes to occur in the next 18 months.

Description: The Society's Group Disability Insurance Experience Committee has completed their study of termination experience for the period 2009-2017. Included is a preliminary report, consolidated database (CDB), pivot tables and appendices.

Description: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.