Description: A study of disability experience examines cost burden and degree of disability, and how these measures vary across different subpopulations. This article summarizes a presentation given at the Society of Actuaries’ Living to 100: Survival to Advanced Ages International Symposium held on Jan. 7–9, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. An abstract of the author's paper was presented in the September 2008 issue of Long-Term Care News.

Description: The paper provides information on the background, construction, and analysis of a new credit disability table, and then offers suggestions for the development of a valuation table.

Description: The article discovers that mortality is higher for females than for males at higher ages, and suggests "stress" as the explanation. It then discusses mental illness research, including recovery therefrom.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #1 SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #3 by SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #2 by SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: Discussion of the separate and joint effects of obesity and diabetes on disability and mortality, and ways these effects can be used to improved insurance pricing and reserving, reverse the increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, and improve current projections of disability and mortality risks.

Description: Task Force for developing a new credit disability table Executive Report Summary

Description: The Product Development Section has recently sponsored research on waiver of premium and waiver of charges riders. Waiver riders are commonly offered as optional benefits or included automatically on individual life insurance policies as an integrated benefit. In the event of disability, a waiver rider may waive future life insurance premium due or contribute an amount to a flexible account, such as the average premium paid over the past year or the cost of insurance charges. Despite the prevalence of these riders, the current valuation standard is still the 1952 Society of Actuaries (SOA) Disability Table.

Description: The Prudential has recently investigated its experience under certain types of disability clauses during the calendar years 1946-1948. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.