Permanent Total Disability from Accidental Causes

A disabled life table, to be proper and suitable as a basis of evaluating permanent disability claims arising Out of accidental causes, should be constructed out of data similar in nature and accumulated under conditions closely paralleling those which gave rise to the disabilities it purports to measure. It is unfortunate that, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain, no American permanent total disability table based entirely upon lives disabled by accidents has been produced. It was because of a realization of this growing need that the experience herewith presented was compiled; and it is being submitted to this Society with the hope that i t may stimulate sufficient interest in the subject to prompt others with similar experience available to prepare it, so that ultimately a dependable basis may be afforded for an American experience table based solely upon lives disabled by accidents.