Our Perspective

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  How Insurers Can Prepare for the Impact of Digitisation on Employment

  By Roman Hannig |July 03, 2018|English

  The way we all work is being shaped by digitisation. The employment lexicon, for example, includes new terms - gig, cloud and crowd working. The effect of digitisation on traditional jobs and workers prompted the German Federal Ministry of Labour and...

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  Healthy Food and Exercise Can Reduce Our Risk of Cancer

  By Ross Campbell |July 03, 2018|English

  We are increasingly encouraged to be healthy. Government advice, advertising, peer pressure, and social and media messages all promote its benefits: Good health follows if we avoid sugar, quit smoking and eat less processed meat in favour of vegetables....

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  Asbestos in Old Buildings - A Costly Addition to Fire Risk

  By Sue Stein and Gerry Hopkins |June 27, 2018|English

  How many of the risks in your property portfolio were constructed before 1982? That was the year that asbestos was banned from new construction, meaning that all those pre-1982 construction risks present potential costs in asbestos removal for both...

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  Improving Disability Claims Management Using Chatbots

  By Andre Meyer and Roman Hannig |June 26, 2018|English | Español

  The wave of digital technology may feel overwhelming at times but it brings enormous innovative potential. Among insurers there’s a clear trend to use chatbots to further develop digital communication channels. Chatbots are “digital helpers”...

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  Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana

  By Bill Baumann |June 20, 2018|English

  As more states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, there is a rising concern about the risk of people getting behind the wheel while high. Marijuana can slow reaction time, impair judgment and distance, and decrease coordination. After...

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  The Rise in Sugar Consumption in the U.S. – and the Obesity Equation

  By Jean-Marc Fix, FSA, MAAA |June 05, 2018|English

  For years, sweets were marketed as innocuous treats for kids whose only drawback was cavities if you did not brush your teeth properly. A more nefarious role was alluded to much earlier: in the early 1900s, a British physician stationed in India, Sir...

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