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.
Exeter Family Friendly has seen a further 10% increase in the proportion of applicants receiving instant underwriting decisions for income protection (IP) since their adoption of UnderwriteMe.
Following the release of risk calculator Ubble, Munich Re's Lee Lovett provides an overview of the tool and what the industry could learn from it.
Phil Jeynes, head of sales and marketing at UnderwriteMe talks about why you should attend the Cover Summit on 1st October 2015.