The CSO Life Insurance Table

Do You Know About the “New-Old” 2001-2009 CSO Life Insurance Table?

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™

Publisher-in-Chief  

As physicians and medical professionals, we know that all life insurance and annuity product pricing is based on mortality – the expectation of when, not if, death will occur.  

But, did you know that at its December 2002 meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC, http://www.naic.org) approved a new mortality table for individual life insurance products sold in the United States.  

The 2001 Commissioners Standard Ordinary (CSO) Table is the new valuation mortality table – insurers will use it to determine mortality risk when they calculate their own company reserves.  So, all physicians should be aware that this may lead to structural changes to term policies including a reduction in term rates and higher issues ages for level term products.   

The good news is that several large insurers have already lowered term rates 20-30%. 

The trouble is that the “new CSO table” is not required to be used by all insurance companies until 2009! 

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