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Finding a Way Forward for Disability Income Insurance in Australia - Our Thoughts on a Future Product Offering [Part 2 of series]

By Viviane Murphy |December 17, 2020|English

Our Individual Disability Income Insurance (IDII) Taskforce has been conducting preliminary workshops with some clients to demonstrate our activation points for a new, sustainable approach to an IDII product design and framework. It’s part of...
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Piloting PAI Health - How Effective is the PAI App at Motivating Health Improvement?

By Tasneem Harnekar |December 16, 2020|English

Earlier this year before the world changed and COVID-19 became our new reality, Gen Re launched a company-wide, international pilot with our collaboration partner PAI Health to study the impact that engaging with the customised activity level designed...
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PFAS and Microplastics - The Next “Toxic Torts” on the Horizon?

By Tim Fletcher |December 15, 2020|English | Chinese

For a number of years, Gen Re has maintained “Pollution Coverage Rulings & Maps,” a publication to inform clients of developments regarding the absolute pollution exclusion, the owned property exclusion and other related topics, such...
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The “Epidemic” of Mental Disorders - Rhetoric and Reality

By Dr. Chris Ball |December 14, 2020|English | Français

Mental health has become a big topic of discussion in the media. Headlines describing mental health problems at epidemic levels are common - and many come from “research” cited by insurers. We know antidepressant prescription rates have...
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The U.S. Critical Illness Market Remains Strong

By Kayla Rooney |December 11, 2020|English

The results from our latest annual U.S. Critical Illness Insurance Market Survey are worth a look as favorable trends continue. 46 companies participated in this year’s survey, with the results representing 81 products that are currently in the...
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Ransomware, COVID-19 and Cyber Insurance - The Big Disconnect

By Molly Corbett |December 09, 2020|English

How is it that 76% of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. experienced a cyberattack in 2019, and yet only 31% had Cyber insurance a year later? With the sharp increase in ransomware and online attacks aimed at employees working from home,...
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