Aviva Ireland adopts UnderwriteMe rules engine

UnderwriteMe and Aviva Life and Pensions Ireland (Aviva) have announced that the life insurer will use UnderwriteMe's underwriting rules engine (URE) across all its Irish business in 2020. The URE provides Aviva underwriters with the ability to change questions, update the ‘help text' and amend underwriting rules for each channel or partner without the need for IT support. Aviva said the use of the URE also means advisers can access Aviva products digitally, which will cut back on manual underwriting processes and so save them time. The two businesses initially began working togeth...