Description: This report presents results from the study undertaken during 1993 and 1994 by the Direct Response Persistency and Mortality Task Force. Direct response product experience is presented for persistency, and mortality for both underwritten and guaranteed issue products.

Description: The first Intercompany Study of the Long-Term-Care Experience Committee and the first public report on experience of lives insured under private insurance plans. Includes incidence rates, lapse rates and claim costs. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1993-94 Reports

Description: This final report is a SOA Task Force response to a NAIC request to develop valuation recommendations for long-term care insurance. Two basic sets of tables are provided: one for institutional benefits [nursing home] and one for noninstitutional benefits [home health care]. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications: 'Equitable Assurances' by Ogborn, 'Fulfilling Pension Expectations' by McGill, 'Voluntary Health Insurance and Rate Making' by MacIntyre, 'Prepayment for Medical and Dental Care in New York State...' by State of New York, 'Financing Health Care of the Aged, Part I' by Blue Cross, 'The Second Report of the Ontario Committee on Portable Pensions' by Gathercole and MacGregor, 'Economics of Unemployment Compensation' by Princeton University, 'The Investment Process as Characterized by Leading Life Insurance Companies' by Walter. Some digests also included.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications on a variety of topics.

Description: Annual report of the morbidity experience of Group Weekly Indemnity insurance and Group Employee and Dependent Hospital and Surgical Expense insurance.

Description: Table of Contents for 1993-94 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience

Description: Discusses considerations taken in determining desirable limits on the amount of group life insurance per life - apart from legislative restrictions, problems presented in the extension of group medical insurance to retired lives, and recent group medical experience.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizations of recent publications: 'Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans' by Eilers, 'Changes in Family Medical Care Expenditures and Voluntary Health Insurance' by Anderson, Collette, and Feldman, 'Risk Management' by Snider, 'Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service' by Public Health Service. Digests are also included.

Description: This report covers Group Accident and Health experience, including Group Hospital and Surgical Expense benefits. The basic tables contained in the report furnish the crude claim costs for the total experience of three policy years.