Description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified theory for the evaluation of underwriting requirements where this evaluation is based on the measurement of the levels of mortality costs associated with such requirements. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: This paper studies mortality differences between right and left-handed professional baseball players by examining the times of, and ages of, death of more than 6,000 players who died before 1990.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.

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: Discusses issues specific to large amount underwriting and the mortality outlook for current high face amount plans.

Description: This is a study of irregularities in pulse beats detected by the electrocardiogram and the impact on mortality experience at one company. Followed by a discussion paper

Description: Paper discussing issues pertaining to setting and managing issue limits and reinsurance retention limits for life insurance.

Description: Isolated T-wave abnormalities - that is, abnormal T waves in an otherwise normal electrocardiogram - are a difficult finding to evaluate and one on which there is no unanimity, either on their significance or on what constitutes an abnormal T wave. In this study, the author has concluded that even minor T wave abnormalities require a rating and that T-wave abnormalities almost always indicate heart disease is present or will soon become manifest.

Description: This discussion looks at problems encountered in putting new underwriting standards into effect, looks at trends in the current economic situation which are taken into consideration in underwriting the financial aspects of a risk, and the results of comparisons between the mortality experience under uninspected business with that under inspected business.