Description: The Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) released this report, which examined the latest trends in obesity and developed an estimate of the impact of obesity on mortality and morbidity costs in the U.S. and Canada.

Description: This document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) for research studies related to Model Governance/Ethics for GenAI Models in the context of the life insurance industry. It outlines the background, scope of work, proposal requirements, selection process, submission guidelines, and conditions for potential research projects.

Description: In this Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute report, authored by consultants from Milliman, Inc. (Milliman) we aim to study the effects of hurricanes on human health: whether there is a relationship between hurricanes and the observed prevalence of healthcare utilization or certain health conditions among the affected population, whether this relationship can be observed through a healthcare utilization dataset, and whether there is an interaction between this observation and metrics of socioeconomic vulnerability.

Description: In this report, we consider high-level results from provisional mortality data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2021, including looking at changes by sex and age group.

Description: This report provides a general introduction, a brief summary and a list of references that include various articles, papers, program proposals and legislative notes that provide additional insight into the following topics related to Business Interruption Insurance and the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on its current and future state of coverage: • General Information on Business Interruption Insurance • Legal Actions • State and Federal Legislation • Proposed Private/Public Partnerships for Future Pandemics as they Relate to Business Interruption Insurance • Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses, Insurers and Reinsurers: Magnitude of Losses and Future Business Interruption Coverage • Future of Insuring a Pandemic

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute has launched the Quarterly Mortality Monitoring Report (QMMR) series, providing updated U.S. mortality data every three months. Each report will facilitate the analysis of mortality trends, offering insights into the latest data as well as tools for visualizing these trends.

Description: This document discusses the comparison of lifetables generated using classic demographic techniques and the Human Mortality Database method protocol for socioeconomic deciles from 1982 to 2022. It explains differences in estimation methods, calculation steps for lifetables, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and a comparison of lifetable values.

Description: This paper, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ was developed by a working group was set up by the SOA’s Finance Practice Area to look at how the insurance industry measures and monitors risk through risk position reporting. This paper reports on the findings of this working group, establishing industry standard practices in risk position reporting. The paper also determines a number of areas in which insurance industry practitioners believe risk position reporting in the insurance industry can be improved.

Description: The purpose of this project was to create a tool that would allow actuaries to derive an understanding of the evidence for medical technologies that are provided through health plans.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (“SOA”) Health Section engaged Milliman, Inc. to conduct a study of group long-term disability (“LTD”) benefit offsets, which Milliman first performed for the SOA in 2008 and reported in July 2009. As with the earlier study, the 2012 Study investigates the percentages of LTD claimants who are receiving disability benefits from sources that offset their LTD benefits, the level of these offset benefits relative to pre-disability earned income and how they are affected by the duration of disablement, age at disablement, gender, industry, state of residence and medical conditions causing the disability. In addition, the 2012 Study investigates the distribution of Social Security approval dates by duration of disablement.