Description: This paper presents a discussion on the paper titled, 'Work Life Expectancy as a Measure of Damages' by Thomas C. Smith and Frank L. Griffin, Jr. The technical aspects of the original paper are discussed, legal precedents for damage findings, and additional factors to be considered in determining damages.

Description: The premise underlying the method illustrated is simply that, in a suit for damages based on earnings lost by reason of premature death or permanent disability, the value of future earnings should not be measured in terms of the whole of life but rather in terms of a more realistic work life expectancy.

Description: This is the 1960 Report on the mortality and total and disability experience by number of lives for calendar years 1955 through 1959 under group term life insurance policies. Data incudes only those policies with a waiver of premium disability clause, extended death benefit clause and total and permanent disability clause. From Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, 1960 Reports.