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Alzheimer’s - Is Early Detection Becoming a Reality?

By Sabrina Link |February 14, 2019|English

For a long time, Alzheimer’s could only be definitively diagnosed after a patient’s death based on neuropathological findings in the brain. Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning and spinal fluid technologies can improve on purely clinical...
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Time to Embrace Digitization Throughout the Life Underwriting Process

By Annika Tiedemann |December 18, 2018|English | Français | Español | Deutsch

The digitization of the life and health insurance business is happening at breathtaking speed. With that, the policy application and underwriting processes are being brought to the attention of people who used to be less concerned with them - such as...
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Don't Forget Your Free Underwriting Tool - The World Wide Web

By Joe Curtin |December 11, 2018|English

With advancing technology and evolving underwriting tools, it may be easy to overlook what has now become an “old standard”, the World Wide Web. Underwriters routinely use numerous screening tools to help assess whether applicants meet the...
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Medical Underwriting and the Mother of Invention

By Ross Campbell |November 27, 2018|English

It’s easy to forget that Life insurance was an invention. Writing in 1866, the actuary Cornelius Walford described the workings of the Amicable Friendly Society that had opened for business 150 years earlier: “The plan was this: the number...
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Life & Health Insurance - It’s Getting Personal

By Karin Brendel|October 25, 2018|English | Français

The continuous harvesting of data in today’s increasingly digitalised world is fueling a drive to include more and more differentiating criteria in the design and pricing of Life and Health insurance products. Today’s products mostly reflect...
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Income Protection Insurance - Your Time Is Now

By Zoe Woodroffe |September 12, 2018|English

Gen Re reinsures significant volumes of Income Protection (IP) business, on both an individual and a group basis in markets around the world. We are passionate about the value IP brings to consumers. It’s a market we are working to grow because...
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