Description: This discussion on overinsurance focuses on speculative buying of life, AD&D, and disability insurance, the effect of expanded disability provisions in the Social Security Act on underwriting disability benefits, and the avoidance of overinsurance in medical benefits.

Description: Variable life insurance asset shares involve, in general, both the separate account and the general account. This paper develops, for both accounts, under the New York Life design, the annual asset share equations of equilibrium for the separate account asset share, for the general account asset share, for the basic reserve, and for the surplus and also derives the individual expressions for the interest and mortality contributions to the surplus. Followed by discussion papers submitted by several authors.

Description: This SOA research report produced by Kamakura Corporation helps illuminate credit risk modeling techniques within the life insurance industry. It includes a review of available research on the subject from academic and industry sources, the development and distribution of a survey on actual techniques used within the industry, and all associated analysis. The finance and economics literature review provides a historical review of academic research on credit modeling with Altman Z-scores, Merton’s structural model and more recent “reduced form models” The industry literature includes discussions of the various credit modeling techniques, factor-based approaches, credit migration models, structural models, reduced form models, hybrid models, actuarial models and credit scoring models. As credit risk modeling is an extremely broad topic, the scope of the survey is narrowed to particular asset classes and functions. There were 22 responses in total to the survey from locations in Canada, Europe and the United states.

Description: This report presents a new set of select and ultimate expected individual life insurance lapse tables, based on inter-company experience of standard ordinary business between 1971-1972 policy anniversaries. Discussion includes overview of how the data was collected and how the tables were constructed and how they should be applied in practice.

Description: This paper indicates the historical development of equity-based insurance products in the United Kingdom, describes the types of equity-based life insurance products now being sold, presents the actuarial bases underlying these products including the treatment of asset value guarantees, and considers the application of United Kingdom product concepts in the United States and Canadian environment.

Description: Discusses: 1. Considerations regarding changing to the 1958 CSO basis - gross premium determination methods, appropriate assumptions, and means of calculation of relative costs 2. Advantages of adopting the new basis before the deadline 3. Frequency of requests for special ages or plans not in the rate book and how can they be best handled logistically.

Description: This discussion looks at rising interest rates since the use of the 1941 CSO Table and the considerations in determining interest rates for premiums and reserves under the 1958 CSO, and changes in the handling of taxes due to the new federal income tax laws in life and pension plans.

Description: This paper deals primarily with the actuarial aspects of a life insurance product providing complete flexibility in the pattern of premium payments- and benefits. This paper presented a framework around which a policy of the life-cycle family can be built. Discussion includes description of how the product might work, given the legal and operational constraints at the time. Also discussion of how compliance with the Standard Valuation Law and Standard Non forfeiture laws would be achieved. Followed by submitted discussions of the paper by various people

Description: Discusses: 1. The Guaranteed Insurability Option - how have companies been promoting and problems that have been encountered 2. Insurance at age zero - with drop in mortality under 1958 CSO, will more companies offer, mortality experience and underwriting, the effect in Canada of the removal of the graded amount requirement from the Uniform Insurance Acts.

Description: Discusses methods developed facilitating the calculation of deficiency reserves arising because of graded premiums or policy fees, The extent dividends and premium rates are determined by a company's own mortality or morbidity experience, problems posed for smaller companies by recent increases in nonmedical limits, and if High School Mathematics Contests have helped smaller companies obtain actuarial personel.