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Mixed Martial Arts - A Controversial Combat Sport

By Claudia Breuer |April 09, 2019|English | Deutsch

The risks associated with the practice of mixed martial arts (MMA) should always be assessed with a high level of attention. The practice of this sport, however, does not yet say everything about the risk potential. Mixed martial arts is a controversial...
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Collaboration Can Bring Digital Innovation to Life Insurance

By Ross Campbell |March 25, 2019|English | Deutsch

There is a view that the life insurance business needs to change or to innovate in order to remain relevant and reach new customers; if incumbent players don’t make an environment that appeals to new customers, someone else will step in and do...
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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 Schilling |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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