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

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636 ESTIMATING THE WORKERS COMPENSATION TAILFIGURE 8.1Deaths and Expected Payouts by AgeThe impact of medical cost escalation causes the age correspondingto the median of the distribution of medical payments(87) to exceed the age corresponding to the median of the distributionof the indemnity payments (77) by 10 years. This canbe seen by comparing the age corresponding to a cumulativeprobability of 50% in Column (D) to the age when Column (I)reaches 50% . To further appreciate the significance of this shift,consider the following observations drawn from Table 8.1B:² While 83% of such claimants die before they reach the age of87, medical payments to claimants who live beyond 86 yearsof age account for over half of total expected future medicalpayments.

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