Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of a survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys - Preferred Underwriting [Reinsurance] Survey Subcommittee. The purpose of this survey, the first preferred underwriting survey compiling reinsurance information from U.S. and Canadian reinsurers on U.S. Life business, was to obtain the opinions of the reinsurance market on preferred risk underwriting.