Life Assurance Tables

U.S. decennial life tables for 1999-2001: state life tables.

OBJECTIVE This report, following publication of the national life tables (1,2) for 1999-2001, presents state-specific life tables for the 50 states and District of Columbia by race (white and black) and sex. These tables are the most recent in a series of decennial life tables for the United States. METHODS Data used to prepare these state-specific life tables include population counts by age...

Prospective life tables

Prospective life tables depend on forecasting age-specific mortality. Considerable attention has 2 been paid to methods for forecasting mortality in recent years. Much of this work has grown 3 out of the seminal Lee-Carter method (Lee & Carter 1992). Other extrapolative approaches 4 use Bayesian modelling, generalized linear modelling and state-space approaches. Methods for 5 forecasting mortal...

Life Assurance in India

Mr. President and Gentlemen,*?My brother Dr. Arnold Caddy and I have been considering for some time whether some interesting information might not be extracted from our records of insurance cases examined by us. Our records were commenced by Dr. Coulter and my brother in the year 1892, and since Dr. Coulter's retirement in 1904, I have been assisting in their compilation also, thus for the last...

A Life Assurance Congress

A meeting of the International Life Assurance Congress is to be held at Brussels in September. The programme of proceedings includes many matters regarding which medical examiners are often greatly exercised, such as the eligibility of syphilitica, alcoholics,neurasthenics, albuminuries and glycosurics, persons with faulty hearts, persons with a tuberculous family history and so forth. While in...

Syphilis and Life Assurance