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Compound Perils - Is Wildfire Season Having an Impact on New COVID-19 Cases in the U.S.?

By Sara Goldberg |September 29, 2020|English

This has been the worst wildfire season in history for many parts of the West Coast of the U.S. and, with several large uncontained complexes still raging, the season is still underway. At the same time, the growing number of COVID-19 cases appears...
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Accelerating Innovation in Life Insurance

By Ross Campbell |September 14, 2020|English | Español | Deutsch

This year continues to present challenges that force us all to think differently. The pandemic response promoted independent action, self-help and a heightened sense of social responsibility. This has accelerated the harnessing of technology as solutions...
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Visual Analytics - Seeing Is Believing

By Andre Meyer |June 10, 2020|English | Français | Español

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.” This quote from the mathematician Richard W. Hamming resonates today because the challenges around understanding and analysing huge amounts of data have grown significantly over the last...
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Life and Health in Asia - What Are O2O Services and Why Are They Important to Insurers?

By Orchis Li |June 02, 2020|English

In case the term “O2O” is unfamiliar, it means online-to-offline, or offline-to-online, and describes the two-way flow between online discovery and actual commerce in the real world. Those of us who have been working in the insurance industry...
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COVID-19 Is Clearly Demonstrating How Digital Health Solutions, Like TrackActive, Can Make a Difference

By Tasneem Harnekar|May 14, 2020|English

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer behaviour and we are all having to find ways to adjust. Significant delays to routine medical examinations, screenings and doctor confirmations due to overstretched healthcare networks and social distancing...
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Antibody Tests for COVID-19 - Are They the Answer Insurers Have Been Searching For?

By Nabaneeta Sirkar and Dr. Thomas Ashley |April 28, 2020|English

The novel corona virus-affected world has been inundated with medical testing and related published data like never before. The volume and nature of testing has evolved significantly in the last few weeks. Antibody tests, which reveal whether a person...
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