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Underwriting Considerations During the COVID-19 Crisis - Will the Rules for Clinical Trials be Relaxed?

General Liability | Apr 09, 2020| English

The latest figures on the COVID-19 pandemic make for alarming reading. At the time of writing, 1,484,811 people around the world were infected with the virus and 88,537 people have died.1 No other topic is dominating the headlines quite like the coronavirus,...

CEA Screening - Useful in Life & Health Underwriting?

Disability, Life | Mar 26, 2020| English

Some insurers have added the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) blood test to the laboratory screening profile for Life and Health insurance applications, and some of our U.S. clients have asked for advice on whether to adopt this test. Every test has repercussions...

Detecting Fraudulent Claims – A Machine Learning Approach

L/H General Industry | Mar 05, 2020| English

This article describes modeling fraudulent claims in the context of a health claims portfolio. We show why this should be an iterative process and requires a dialogue between analytics experts and claims managers.

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Claims Assessment – Another Piece in the Puzzle

Issue: Feb 25, 2020| Life | English
As an important part in the insurance life cycle, claims assessors manage, evaluate and pay out claims. Only well-trained staff will be able to fulfil all the requirements needed.
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Underwriting Focus 2019, No. 2

Issue: Dec 16, 2019| Life | English | View in Français
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Inexpensive Changes to Prevent Costly Life Insurance Fraud

By Mary Enslin | Dec 09, 2019 | English

Fraud costs insurers a huge amount of money every year. In the U.S., recent estimates for the cost of insurance fraud ranges from USD14 billion to USD80 billion across Life/Health and Property/Casualty classes.1 Meanwhile in the UK, the Association of...
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A Digital Solution for Income Protection Claims

By Ross Campbell | May 02, 2019 | English

New technologies mean Disability Income Protection (IP) claims managers can enhance and expand the support and services they offer. Digital solutions can also be used to enhance and improve the claims experience. TrackActive is a company that has developed...
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Underwriting Considerations During the COVID-19 Crisis - Will the Rules for Clinical Trials be Relaxed?

CEA Screening - Useful in Life & Health Underwriting?

Detecting Fraudulent Claims – A Machine Learning Approach

Claims Assessment – Another Piece in the Puzzle

Underwriting Focus 2019, No. 2

Inexpensive Changes to Prevent Costly Life Insurance Fraud

A Digital Solution for Income Protection Claims