Description: This research utilized an interview-based approach that delves into the utilization of alternative data in the Australian life and health insurance markets.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) and TAI recently released an update to the U.S. Individual Life COVID-19 report series. This report is the third public release from this collaboration and contains the results of an excess mortality analysis for the four quarter of 2020. Data from 31 companies representing approximately 72% of the industry’s face amount inforce have been included in the analyses in this report. A total of 2.9 million death claims from individual life policies from 2015 through December 31, 2020 make up the basis of the analyses.

Description: This presentation was given at the 2016 SOA Annual Meeting and presents results of an Older Issue Age Mortality Analysis

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.

Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

Description: The Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present preliminary 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. The report recaps a presentation of the preliminary results from the 2019 Life and Annuity Symposium. The final results are expected to be available later in 2019.

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 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: Taking Life Insurance Customer Engagement to the Next Level, commissioned by the Society of Actuaries and produced by Aite Group, uses consumer insights, market trends, and domain expertise to provide ideas that can help insurers create better customer relationships and drive better outcomes for customers and their organizations.

Description: One of the evolving datasets with the COVID-19 Research Database is the Datavant population mortality information. This report notes the features of the database, discuss their potential use and limitations, examines data reliability and reviews it potential use as an additional data set and input to mortality improvement models.