Description: This section presents and summarizes insurance-related legal cases of 1953 including: 1. GROUP ANNUITY CONTRACTPERPETUAL OBLIGATION: Freeport Sulphur Company v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, 2. SERVICE OF PROCESSUNAUTHORIZED INSURER: Parmalee v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, 3. ORAL PLEDGE OR ASSIGNMENTCREDITOR'S RIGHT: Commercial National Bank v. Chapman, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Weissman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 5. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL COMPANYJURISDICTION OF INSURANCE COMMISSlONER: Allyn v. Hull, 6. AVIATION EXCLUSIONPARACHUTE JUMP: Smith v. Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 7. SETTLEMENT OPTIONTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. PURCHASE OF HOME OFFICE PROPERTYINSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL: Guardian Life Insurance Company vs. Bohlinger, 9. LOAN VALUE: DISABILITY AND DOUBLE INDEMNITY RESERVES: Chastang v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 10. CONVERSION OF GROUP INSURANCESUICIDE: Lineberry v. Security Life and Trust Company, 11. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows

Description: This paper studies the possibility that associated minor impairments, particularly those of a cardiovascular nature, may be of special significance with respect to longevity when associated with a family history of cardiovascular disease. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This discussion looks at the extent smaller companies have adopted the practice of financing new agents and general agents as well as to what extent smaller companies make studies by individual agencies withing policy types, persistency rates, average size of policy, expense rates, and mortality rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This report contains a set of of unloaded and loaded mortality tables for guaranteed issue business.

Description: This report contains a set of of unloaded and loaded mortality tables for guaranteed issue business.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2015 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: This research report discusses simplified issue underwriting in life insurance. It examines recent developments, characteristics, challenges, current practices, assumptions and data elements.

Description: Survey form

Description: This is a supplemental Excel Workbook to the Select Period Mortality Survey report. The workbook contains additional analysis of the responses submitted for the select period mortality assumption survey. This project was sponsored by the SOA’s Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: This appendix II Report on the Life and Annuity Living Benefits Survey provides supplemental information for the Report on Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Resinsurers. Appendix A gives a list of 34 participants and Appendix B provides a glossary of terms used in the report. The report utilizes a literature review, company survey, company interviews and/or other methods to catalog a listing of common living benefit riders. It was sponsored by the Product Development and Reinsurance Sections along with the Committee on Life Insurance Research.