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PROCEEDINGS May 15, 16, 17, 18, 2005 - Casualty Actuarial Society

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624 ESTIMATING THE WORKERS COMPENSATION TAILTABLE 5.10Errors in PLDFs During 34th Year of Development Dueto Selecting a Constant Historical Average PLDFAccident Selected True Underlying % Error inYear PLDF PLDF Incremental Payments1970 1.02138 1.02<strong>16</strong>6 ¡1:31975 1.02138 1.022<strong>18</strong> ¡3:61980 1.02138 1.02276 ¡6:11985 1.02138 1.02336 ¡8:51990 1.02138 1.02395 ¡10:71995 1.02138 1.02452 ¡12:82000 1.02138 1.02507 ¡14:7TABLE 6.1A Comparison of Indicated MPD Tail FactorsMaturity BasedonSAIF’s BasedonStatic BasedonTrended(Years) Experience Mortality Model Mortality Model10 2.469 2.684 3.025<strong>15</strong> 2.328 2.469 2.78325 2.054 2.019 2.27135 1.680 1.594 1.776Even though it is true that past declines in mortality ratesare implicitly embedded in historical PLDFs, the above exampleclearly illustrates that it would be incorrect to assume that the selectionof historical factors as estimates of future PLDFs wouldimplicitly incorporate the effects of future declines in mortalityrates. What would be more appropriate would be to select representativePLDFs for each development year based on recenthistorical factors and then to trend these upward in a mannerparallel to the PLDFs indicated by a realistic model.6. ACOMPARISONOFINDICATEDTAILFACTORSTable 6.1 provides a comparison of the MPD tails indicatedby SAIF’s own loss experience with those indicated by the static

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