Gen Re is recognized by its clients for its excellent underwriting manuals. There are manuals for Individual Life, Long Term Care, Individual Disability Income, and Critical Illness. Each reflects our commitment to excellence.
Since its inception as The Cologne Manual, life insurance risk classification practitioners throughout the industry have recognized this manual as one of their most valuable resources. During the evolution of SOURCE – Life, we have conscientiously retained the characteristics our clients told us were most valuable to them. With each re-issue we incorporate new features to complement our existing strengths. As ever, SOURCE – Life provides succinct snapshots of a comprehensive array of topics, usually in optional “pop-up” boxes with simple one-click access. Navigation to the underwriting action remains faster and easier than in any competing manual. Additional capabilities such as live Internet links to valuable websites and facilitated e-mail to Gen Re’s dedicated underwriting and medical personnel make it a state-of-the-art tool to generate fast, competitive underwriting decisions.
Our goal is to provide the best manual in the industry to our clients. The pursuit of the newest technologies and research are measures of our commitment. The brochure SOURCE – Life 6.0 describes features of the 2007 release in detail. For more information, please contact Thomas Ashley, M.D., Vice President and Chief Medical Director at 203 352 3018 or .
SOURCE – LTC
The LTC Manual is the ongoing intensive effort by the underwriters and medical doctors of Gen Re LifeHealth. The experience of our individual health underwriters, which averages more than 20 years each, combined with the contributions and insights of our four full-time medical doctors have been leveraged to create the most comprehensive and detailed manual available in the Long Term Care industry today.
This manual covers more than 2,000 impairments. The detail to which these are subdivided and categorized increases the total number of decisions offered to nearly 10,000. A distinctive feature of our manual is the “decision tree” approach of favorable and unfavorable factors. We designed a manual that would “think like an underwriter” by addressing one risk factor at a time, first considering the primary risk of the impairment and then branching out based on the specifics of the case.
For more information about SOURCE – LTC, please contact Steve Rowley, Vice President of Risk Management at 203 352 3105 or .
SOURCE – DI
JHA offers the industry's leading Individual Disability underwriting manual. This dynamic risk assessment tool offers an added degree of confidence to the disability underwriter's decision-making process. Designed exclusively for our ID reinsurance clients in North America, our manual is user-friendly and offers a keyword index, search capabilities, various hyperlinks and other useful features. Available on CD-ROM, the manual operates on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP platforms.
For more information about SOURCE – DI, please contact Vincent DeMarco, Vice President, Individual DI Reinsurance, at 207 874 2261 ext. 128 or .
SOURCE – CI
SOURCE – CI has been developed using our worldwide experience and expertise in Critical Illness insurance. The extensive list of impairments included in this manual is subject to an ongoing evaluation and updating process based on research and emerging experience.
The utilization of the latest Internet technology provides the following advantages:
Easy access on any PC with an internet connection
Password protection
Short time frame for implementation and delivery of updates
Quick and easy access to and navigation between impairment topics via either a full text search or an impairment index
Suggestion form for instant feedback
Email link for ease in contacting the Gen Re underwriting team
The manual is designed to apply to a broad spectrum of CI products by focusing on the core definitions common to most CI contracts. Working together we can assist you in applying these guidelines to underwrite your product most effectively.
For more information about SOURCE – CI, please contact Steve Rowley, Vice President of Risk Management at 203 352 3105 or .
