Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies that focus on health topics.

Description: This is the SOA 1991 large claims database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for group health for further information about the specifications for this database. The Committee on Health Benefit Systems Research is pleased to announce the availability of the 1991-92 Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database. The database includes more than 171,000 claims of $25,000 or more, representing over $10 billion in total charges. Fields include diagnosis 3digit ICD-9 code, type of coverage HMO, PPO, Indemnity, etc., claimant status employee or dependent, and charges split into hospital and non-hospital, in addition to claimant age and gender.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: This report presents the results of the investigation of the mortality and withdrawal experience under permanent forms of life insurance policies issued on the attained age basis without medical examination under the Group Life conversion privilege.

Description: Presents the results of the investigation of the mortality and withdrawal experience under permanent forms of life insurance policies issued on the attained age basis without medical examination under the Group Life conversion privilege.

Description: The Society of Actuaries SoA developed this research project to repeat and expand upon its “Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis” study, which was published as a monograph in August of 1997. The general purpose of these studies is to discover and analyze factors affecting claim incidence rates and the distribution of claim sizes. This is the report for the database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for Group Health for the databases themselves.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and Society of Actuaries (SOA) engaged RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA) to undertake a research project on level premium term life insurance products with a particular focus on the magnitude and impact of the “shock lapse” at the end of the level premium period. This project is similar to the SOA-sponsored research completed by RGA in 2014 for USA business.

Description: This study used the Impairment Study Capture System (ISCS) to examine mortality results of policies, beginning in 1989, on insured lives with elevated blood pressure.

Description: This is a letter to readers of The Actuary from Arnold Dicke and Walter Lowrie to solicit opinions on the problem which seems to crop up each time an examination is to be set.

Description: This report is based on simplified issue [SI] products sold during 2004 but introduced before 2004. Twenty-seven companies responded, covering 48 products.