Description: This mortality study is based on results of calendar year 1994 from 17 companies. Experience for amount of $1 million are more is reported with differentiation by sex, issue age, policy year, amount, smoking status, underwriting status, reinsurance status, plan of insurance, and level of retention.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that in mortality studies the ‘natural’ unit for exposures and deaths is number of lives, but often more insight is gained by use of other weights, such as face amount. In this paper, the author develops a method which, ‘by a combination of exposed to risk formulas, provides a comparatively simple procedure to permit consideration of weights which vary during the observation period.’

Description: This paper was presented at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Western Spring Meeting, held June 7-8 in Chicago. The author presents the results of a mortality study on normally uninsurable risks issued life insurance under pension trusts. The paper includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 22.

Description: Report on aviation mortality statistics between years 1940-1956 including data for civil versus military aviation.

Description: This report presents five years of mortality experience on uninsured pension plans, analyzing mortality experience from 28 retirement systems and Medicare between 1985 and 1989. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991-92 Reports.

Description: This study covers all standard regular Ordinary issues of 1919 through 1951 exposed between 1948 and 1952 anniversaries, issued by the Prudential Insurance Company. There is a comparison of male to female mortality.

Description: This discussion on mortality studies looks at measures of mortality being used to obtain an accurate portrayal of mortality trends.

Description: 1980 Report adds the experience by number of lives for calendar years 1975-79 under group life insurance policies to that previously reported. Disability experience is also given under 4 difference contract provisions.

Description: Discussion of the mortality experience of the Korean War. The purpose of this paper to present some statistics and point out variations in the hazard that might that might be of value in setting up rules for the underwriting of military risks.

Description: This is a sequel to Panjer's paper. The Walter Reeed Staging Method - WRSM - is a method that groups patients infected with HIV into various stages. This paper looks at mathematically modeling the transition process of HIV by using the WRSM. This paper argues that Panjer's results are biased and understates the average time it will take an HIV life to develop AIDS.