Description: This 1976 report report covers the inter-company mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1974 and 1975 anniversaries, and also for the period between 1970 and 1975 anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This purpose of this paper is to furnish management of smaller companies with small company experience. This includes a comparison between medical and non-medical business and the maintaining of a continuous investigation procedure. This paper additionally determines experience rates of mortality for dividend purposes. Experience by cause of death is also provided.

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

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 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.