Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute sent companies a survey in May of 2019 on mortality improvement practices. Note this survey was completed prior to the onset of COVID-19, so that issue was not addressed in this survey. The purpose of the survey was to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance and annuity pricing and financial projections in both the U.S. and Canada.

Description: The primary purposes of the study are the following: 1. Compare recent industry experience for individual life waiver of premium (ILWOP) insurance products to the claim incidence and claim termination rates from the 1952 SOA Disability Table; 2. Analyze actual-to-expected (A/E) claim incidence and claim termination ratios across key segments such as gender, attained age, etc.; 3. Develop an illustrative experience basis for calculating policy and claim reserves based on the results from the A/E studies; and 4. Compare reserves calculated using experience assumptions to the reserves calculated using the 1952 SOA Disability Table for an illustrative cohort of ILWOP business.

Description: This paper explores how molecular biology, specifically epigenetics, may impact the life insurance industry, and considers the effects of utilizing epigenetic biomarkers for underwriting.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: This report provides various summaries of the above listed data and provides observations from these summaries, with a goal to help actuaries understand the emerging trends in mortality due to COVID-19.

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

Description: Several presentations that contain analyses on the SOA’s Individual Life Experience Committee’s 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Data are available below. The final 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Report and data will be published later this year.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This includes study years 2009-2015.

Description: E-book on Response to Life Insurance 2020 Foresight – A Call for Essays e-Book. This e-book focuses on the vision for the future of the life insurance sector and contains the introduction and essays.

Description: There are many ways to actively utilize BE approaches – and implementing these important tools can help insurers in many ways.