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: 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: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This report presents the results of the Survey on Business Decision practices of reinsurers conducted by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys . A survey of direct writers of life insurance is reported separately.

Description: In the wake of the pandemic, much of the insurance industry is now endeavoring to find sustainable, longer-term solutions among many forced innovations – and to ensure that temporary adaptations add value beyond mere change.

Description: This is a discussion from the June 2000 meeting of the Society of Actuaries in San Diego, looking at the evolution of e-commerce for the insurance business.

Description: This session 36TS of the Toronto Spring Meeting discusses selected concepts that relate to risk appraisal in new business issuance and underwriting. Specific attention is focused on the relative values of underwriting tools, namely fluid collection: blood, urine, and oral fluid. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 36TS

Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. In this session panelists presented an overview of underwriting processes for a variety of product lines. They also discuss related topics such as identifying keys to underwriting decisions, the cost of underwriting and protective value, and ensuring consistency with pricing assumptions. Some of the underwriting tools discussed were use of RX history, credit checks, DMV history, and fraud data bases.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the insuring of the aging population in respect to assessment of the health of the insured and resulting mortality costs.