Description: This paper addresses some pervasive problems in using secondary data in actuarial research. An approach to solving these problems is based on information theory. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This paper presents population hospital utilization data concerning the proportion of total hospital days that is due to injury and the proportion of total hospital days that is spent in intensive care units for use in obtaining reserve factors. The paper also presents continuation data for hospitalizations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This is a report on a special study of Major Medical Expense insurance by the Group Morbidity Committee. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: This paper describes the development of the net annual claim costs, net premiums, and reserve factors that comprise the 1974 Medical Expense Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: This paper traces the background of the surgeon general's 1979 report on smoking, highlights its principle conclusions with respect to mortality, and summarizes its findings regarding socioeconomic and demographic differences between smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: Brief introduction to the 1967 report series by the Committee on Group Life and Health Insurance.

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.

Description: This report presents the annual survey of long-term lapsation examining the experience of ordinary insurance, whole life and term insurance in Canada between the 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984 Reports

Description: Presents credibility formulas that are designed to be specifically applicable to group insurance, and which are based on group size and are adjustable for changes in group membership, etc. The practical motivation and use of these formulas are discussed.

Description: This paper is presented for the purpose of updating major medical tables published originally in 1961 TSA, XIII, 497. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.