Description: This paper documents recent medicare utilization experience from 1975-1977 extracted from a large statistical data file developed by the Department of Health and Human Services. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: A request for proposal from the Society of Actuaries for a project to receive, compile and analyze experience data of cancer claims costs from 2001 t0 2011.

Description: The 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) approved by the NAIC as the new statutory minimum reserve morbidity basis.

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: The purpose of this note is to make available to the profession several morbidity tables constructed by techniques described in the paper Continuance Functions presented in Volume XI of the Transactions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 11, No. 37.

Description: The second report of a continuous investigation of Group Accident and Health experience, including Hospital and Surgical Expense benefits.

Description: This is a listing of the members of various committees in 1959.

Description: Table of Contents.

Description: Table of Contents.

Description: The percentage of the population who are obese has grown dramatically worldwide over the last several decades, although stabilizing recently in the United States. Studies have found the effects on mortality to be inconsistent and controversial because of methodological differences and the complexity of the relationship between obesity and mortality. This paper discusses this relationship and sheds light on the likely effects of this epidemic. Issues associated with the so-called obesity-mortality paradox, where mortality experience is lower for those individuals who are overweight and in some who are obese compared with the mortality of those in the normal weight category, are examined. Although certain recently reported studies of the relationship between mortality and obesity indicate that obesity is related to a reduced percent of additional mortality, this may in part be due to the shorter average time that those currently obese have been exposed to their condition. Nevertheless, the amount of health care costs and rates of disability associated with being obese are significant, contributing to the increase in overall health care costs as they become more numerous and age. Although obesity is being addressed with a great deal of activity and publicity, they will continue to prove challenging for individuals and society to manage and overcome.