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February 24, 2022 at 03:42 PM
What You Need to Know
- The new mortality analysis dashboard is easy enough for laypeople to use.
- It suggests that, in the first quarter of 2021, the pandemic caused a bigger increase in mortality over expected levels for nonsmokers than for smokers.
- The pandemic seemed to cause a smaller mortality effect for whole life insureds than for insureds with term life or universal life.
A team of actuaries has posted a free web-based dashboard that ordinary people can use to analyze COVID-19 mortality data for people with individual life insurance.
Members of the Individual Life COVID-19 Project Work Group created the dashboard using data contributed by 31 U.S. insurers.
The database includes 3 million individual life insurance claims filed from 2015 through March 31, 2021, along with mortality information for the general population.
The dashboard is aimed at people who know how to use the web but who do not necessarily know anything about statistics or computer programming.
Users can click on different tabs on the dashboard site to see mortality claim data broken down by variables such as sex, face amount, smoker status, attained age and underwriting class.
The smoker status tab, for example, shows that COVID-19 did more to increase the mortality of nonsmokers over the expected levels than it did to increase the actual-to-expected death ratio for smokers.
