Description: The Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) of the SOA has gathered industry data covering 2006-2015. This sessions will highlights their findings on the recent industry experience compared to the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT), including the impact of the recession on incidence and terminations. The audience will gain an understanding of how the recent industry experience compares to the most recent valuation table. The session will cover claim incidence and claim termination Actual to Expected (A/E) using 2013 IDIVT as the expected basis. The adequacy of the modifiers will also be also be discussed.

Description: This discussion focuses on the significant aspects of the 1958 mortality experience under group life insurance policies, the significant aspects of the morbidity experience with respect to the various forms of group sickness and accident insurance policies, and the recent experience under individual policies converted from group life insurance or group medical expense insurance plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Visualization --transforming data into beautiful and informative charts, maps, and diagrams-- is quickly becoming a mainstream skill, thanks to tools that are often free and easy to use. In this session you will learn about this tools, and how to apply them effectively to your own work.

Description: This session discussion will address how you can incorporate diet and fitness in your life to ease stress. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Max Rudolph's winning essay.

Description: This 1978 session focused on Group ASO and Minimum Premium Plans. Specific topics included: 1. Background - the need and motivation for adopting such plans, 2. Administrative Services Only Contracts, and 3. Stop-loss provisions.

Description: This is the general session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting with keynote speaker, Dr. J. Craig Venter who discusses sequencing the human genome, dog genome and mouse genome and the impact on the practice of medicine. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: The Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) of the SOA has gathered industry data covering 2006-2015. The presenters will highlight findings on the recent industry experience compared to the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT), including the impact of the recession on incidence and terminations. They will cover claim incidence and claim termination Actual to Expected (A/E) using 2013 IDIVT as the expected basis. The adequacy of the modifiers will also be discussed.

Description: This discussion is about how effectively has schedule limits and other similar restrictions in amounts and types of covered charges reduce amounts of claims incurred under major medical expense policies. From Transaction of Society of Actuaries 1961 vol 13 pt 2

Description: This paper describes a computer package for analyzing AIDS data named AIDS-PAC that: 1. adjusts AIDS case counts to account for reporting delay, 2. estimates the size of the HIV infected population, 3. provides short-term forecasts of the extent of the AIDS epidemic. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991 VOL. 1