Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today, Scottish Widows' Helen Dick discusses how to keep underwriting relevant as technology advances.
Redmayne Consulting's Nigel Bradshaw takes an in depth look at underwriting criteria on the major quote portals and asks where the underwriting journey is going next.
Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.
In the fourth article in the series of monthly articles from Scottish Widows, Helen Dick answers this week's star letter and explains the impact technology will have on underwriting.
Willis Towers Watson has developed the first widely-available mortality model to use medical science and the views of medical experts to improve predictiveness.
Paul Yates discusses how technology providers such as IPipeline are looking to manage customer expectations better through the underwriting process.
Cancer is when abnormal cells divide in an uncontrolled way, some eventually spreading into other tissues writes Fergus Bescoby.
Life expectancy continues to improve according to data released by the Office for National Statistics.
Liss System's Guy Williams says the customer matters most in the debate over GP reports.
Aegon has improved its digital life insurance solution, Simply Life, to ensure more acceptances from a wider number of mortgage and protection clients.