Description: Panelists discuss recent trends in individual life mortality experience, especially for preferred risks, and the impact of agent selection and underwriting exceptions on a company's mortality results. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses an effort to get all individual life insurers to submit mortality data in a unified approach for the SOA, allowing actuaries to concentrate on their study and reporting significant mortality results.