Description: The presenters at this session of the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting discuss the results of a recent Society of Actuaries survey on simplified issue products to explain the current state of the simplified issue market. A case study of what is expected to be a next generation underwriting product is reviewed.

Description: This summary explains the techniques used and the results from the application of futurism techniques utilized to explore mortality improvement. From the 2008 SOA Spring Meeting, Quebec City.

Description: This is a paper from the session on the Asia at the January 15-18, 2023, 2023 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Discussion focuses on available data, purpose of the mortality table, and what changes may be needed. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: These are the Discussant Comments by Allen M. Klein for the Mortality Improvement Session 3B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: Panelists at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the number of preferred risk categories that might be appropriate for today's products. Pricing, marketing and underwriting implications are discussed.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: The Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present results from a company practice survey of individual life insurance accelerated underwriting. Performed by a Milliman team led by Al Klein and Karen Rudolph, the study provides perspectives from both direct life insurance companies and reinsurers. Among the areas addressed include the structure of accelerated underwriting programs, how programs are monitored, how accelerated underwritten business is performing relative to expectations and how companies are considering accelerated underwriting cohorts in the context of VM-20 assumption setting.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a company survey of select period mortality assumptions. This project was sponsored by the SOA’s Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.