Description: The Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Committee is looking for a research proposal that will examine the increased uptake of diabetes drugs on overall medical trends as well as the costs of individuals who are prescribed these drugs.

Description: This report presents the impact of Covid-19 on socioeconomic differentials in mortality in the United States. The study aims to understand how the pandemic affected various socioeconomic groups in the U.S. population.

Description: This report presents Phase 2 of the 2024 IDEC Study, analyzing individual disability income (IDI) claim recovery and mortality rates from 2006-2014. It expands Phase 1's scope—previously limited to 90-day elimination and To Age 65-70 benefit periods—to include additional elimination and benefit periods, examining variations by diagnosis, occupation class, claim year, and gender.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute revisits COVID-19's impact on future U.S. mortality with insights from a multidisciplinary panel of experts. Discover how new variants and other causes of death may influence future mortality trends.

Description: The Society of Actuaries SoA developed this research project to repeat and expand upon its “Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis” study, which was published as a monograph in August of 1997. The general purpose of these studies is to discover and analyze factors affecting claim incidence rates and the distribution of claim sizes. This is the report for the database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for Group Health for the databases themselves.

Description: A multi-author collection exploring how catastrophe modeling can be adapted to life and health insurance, particularly in response to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

Description: Report to give actuaries practical information and guidance on LTD claim credibility for case level pricing and underwriting. Stage 2 of the GLTD Credibility Study, this analysis was expanded using the industry data gathered during Stage 1.

Description: Data requirements for the Society of Actuaries cancer experience study, for those submitting exposure and claim information.

Description: This report is a study. It discusses the objectives, scope, methodology, and limitations of the study, focusing on how diagnosis affects disability income claim recovery and mortality rates.

Description: This report investigates how mental health diagnoses and social determinants influence life insurance underwriting and mortality risk.