Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists review mortality experience studies and research and underwriting practices, discussing topics including smoker vs. non-smoker mortality, differences by sex, and medical impairments. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This session is about recent population experience, likely causes, probable future prospects, Industry mortality differentials and trends by product line,market and type of underwriting, What statistically credible evidence do we have for the efficacy of life insurance underwriting practices, What does the new Intercompany Standard Issues study show and Are there sound biological laws of mortality. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reversion rates and mortality on non-reverted lives, mortality experience versus mortality tables, select and ultimate term insurance products and the developing experience for term insurance.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the Business Mens Assurance's computerized mortality study on its reinsured business. It also discusses smoker/non-smoker mortality assumptions, surplus relief via traditional coinsurance and mod-co and TEFRA impact on reinsurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the current developments on the Unisex rating issue including judicial, statutory, political, regulatory and the future outlook. It also looks at the blending approaches to represent unisex factors and the impact of the Norris decision on TIAA-CREF.

Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: The impact of nutrition, geography, occupation and other health risks on mortality with regards to life insurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries, February 1978, Vol. 3, No. 4

Description: From session 6PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999. Panelists identify the changing patterns in insured mortality that we are currently experiencing and that we might experience going forward. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: This session 34PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting covers the recent path-breaking research investigates the reasons that females live longer than males in virtually all societies, and even across species. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 34PD.

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.