Description: This is a review of the publication entitled 'Medicare: Health Insurance for the Aged, 1969: Geographic Indices of Reimbursement by State and County.' It is of value to health actuaries because it contains information as to the variation in health insurance claim costs by geographical areas within the United States.

Description: This paper is a primer for actuaries with limited experience in accessing and using public data sets. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 and has produced a report that provide a practical set of changes to the claim termination rates (CTRs) of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect key industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends over this time period. The goal was to have the resulting 2006-2014 IDIET in a workable format to facilitate its implementation.

Description: This paper reviews available evidence about the compression of morbidity and the disability decline and discusses the context in which they occur: initial level of disability, initial value of life expectancy and trend in life expectancy.

Description: Data request for Group Term Life Mortality Study for years 2007-2009.

Description: This is the fifteenth annual report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance and Group Employee and Dependent Hospital and Surgical Expense insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Reports.

Description: This 1968 report extends last year's 1967 initial study of the morbidity experience by lives under plans with a six-month elimination period by [1] adding an additional year's experience to the table of rates of disablement and [2] developing rates of termination for the early durations following the elimination period. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968 Reports

Description: The 21st annual 1968 report on the continuing study of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance and Group Employee and Dependent Hospital and Surgical Expense insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968 Reports.

Description: The 3rd annual 1969 report of the study of morbidity experience of Group Supplementary Major Medical Expense insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969 Reports

Description: The first report from 1969 of a new study of claim frequencies, charges, and claim costs for a sample of basic Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance Plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969 Reports