Description: This summary report on the claim experience under group life insurance policies for the calendar year 1953 indicates a continuation of the pattern of experience for the seven year period 1946 through 1952, which in the aggregate has shown a gradual improvement in mortality year by year. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1954 Reports

Description: The 1980 CSO Tables were developed by the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation to replace the existing 1958 CSO Tables as the minimum standard for valuation. This paper presents the new tables and recommendations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This article details different methods for calculating mortality impact associated with new underwriting programs. A common simplified calculation is compared and contrasted with two first principles approaches. The strengths and weaknesses of both approaches are discussed.

Description: There are certain occasions when the knowledge we have gained in our jobs carries over into our personal lives. For instance, developing insurance products certainly helps when it comes time to buy an insurance policy. Recently, one of the authors had the experience of giving his 91-year-old grandmother, Nanny as she is affectionately called, an Extended Delayed Word Recall DWR test. This article will show that DWR tests are a powerful predictor of mortality in the elderly. As the population ages and more and more life insurance is being applied for at the older ages, having a DWR test in an underwriting arsenal is like comfort food for an actuary.

Description: This article is a response to the article Current U.S. Ordinary Life Mortality by Doug Doll and Mike Jones. The author offers his interpretation of the mortality improvements observed between 1980-85 and 1983-88.

Description: Covers mortality experience under standard individually underwritten life insurance for 1986 - 1987 anniversaries.

Description: Covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance between 1978 and 1979 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1974 and 1979 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: Covers 1983 - 1984 and 1979 - 1984 anniversaries mortality experience for individual life insurance.

Description: This presentation was given at the 2016 SOA Annual Meeting and presents results of an Older Issue Age Mortality Analysis

Description: Presents aviation mortality statistics, updated for complete 1961 data and estimated 1962, with historical data shown beginning in 1950.