Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the findings of the recent Group Life Experience Study using data from 1985 to 1989. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: This is the 1960 Report on the mortality and total and disability experience by number of lives for calendar years 1955 through 1959 under group term life insurance policies. Data incudes only those policies with a waiver of premium disability clause, extended death benefit clause and total and permanent disability clause. From Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, 1960 Reports.

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: Results of the committee's 2006 Group Term Life Experience Study, based on experience data from 1999 through 2001. Experience included Death, Disability Waiver of Premium “Waiver”, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment “AD&D” benefits. Also, information is presented separately for Individually Billed versus Self-Administered business. Available pivot tables enable companies to perform their own analysis.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 comparing trends to the 2013 IDI Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) base termination rates. Included is the report, pivot table, and data file.

Description: The premise underlying the method illustrated is simply that, in a suit for damages based on earnings lost by reason of premature death or permanent disability, the value of future earnings should not be measured in terms of the whole of life but rather in terms of a more realistic work life expectancy.

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: 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: Second article in a series on how to use predictive analytics to improve the development of long-term care projection assumptions.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 comparing trends to the 2013 IDI Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) base termination rates. Included is the report, pivot table, and data file.