Description: This appendix II Report on the Life and Annuity Living Benefits Survey provides supplemental information for the Report on Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Resinsurers. Appendix A gives a list of 34 participants and Appendix B provides a glossary of terms used in the report. The report utilizes a literature review, company survey, company interviews and/or other methods to catalog a listing of common living benefit riders. It was sponsored by the Product Development and Reinsurance Sections along with the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: Brief introduction of the Committee's 1979 report on Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance and Group Long-Term Disability Insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979 Reports

Description: The purpose of this survey was to gather data on how a sampling of the life insurance industry makes decisions involving lab tests. This most significant conclusions were that protective value was the biggest driving force and the chief underwriter played the biggest role.

Description: This report analyzes the results of a survey of LTD carriers in the United States, focusing on how LTD carriers reflect benefit offsets in the valuation of their reserves.

Description: The attached report presents the results of a survey whose purpose was to explore the various uses of technology by life insurance companies. The survey was conducted by the Technology Survey Subcommittee of the Society of Actuaries Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee. The primary focus of this survey was the impact of technology on mortality studies and underwriting.

Description: Summary of the Committee's report consisting of three sections: Group Weekly Indemnity Insurance, Group Long-Term Disability Insurance, Exposure and Claim Study - Sample of Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey conducted in August of 2008 on foreign travel underwriting practices of reinsurance companies.

Description: This report presents the results of the Survey on the Business Decision practices of direct companies conducted by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys. A survey of reinsurers is reported separately.

Description: Preface to the 1968 Report of the Committee on Group Life and Health Insurance detailed by sections. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968 Reports