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By Peter Maynard I always remember being told, early in my underwriting career (I’ll leave you to guess when that might have been), that it was the duty of the…

As ever, change is constant, but these days we all notice it more because the pace of change is quicker and still accelerating. In the 1990s one could look back…

Towards the end of 2021 SelectX, in partnership with EXL Service, surveyed life insurers in India to gauge progress along the pathway of automated underwriting. Here we give an overview…

As a follow-up to our original article published last December, highly regarded veteran underwriter Tom McCarthy looks at the subject of expert witness work from a US perspective. As per…

Acting as an expert underwriting witness, either in legal actions or arbitration processes, can be interesting work. Usually, such cases arise through policyholders being dissatisfied with non-payment of claims, but…

In our first article we looked at some of the basic terminology used around the umbrella term artificial intelligence (AI). In our second we take a deeper dive into an…

Noisy underwriting? It’s when you give two underwriters a less than straightforward case to assess and they arrive at different decisions – maybe very different. Or if you asked an…

COVID-19 is an acute, albeit sometimes fatal illness, right? Not necessarily so. While many who become infected by COVID-19 make a full recovery, a significant minority experience persisting symptoms. Indeed,…

There remains much debate about Coronavirus and the many ways in which it has affected, is affecting and will affect societies: for example, the death tolls so far and in…

We have always been fans of tele-interviewing and have authored or co-authored two seminal reports on the subject over the years1,2. Tele-interviews, when carried out by well trained individuals, ideally…