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  How Data Science Is Redefining the Medical Director’s Role

  Von Dr. Thomas Ashley and Jean-Marc Fix |April 20, 2021|English

  Data analytics projects have become increasingly common across the insurance industry in the last few years and have really taken off in the Life sector. It’s a trend that requires the input of Medical Directors - and it gives the Directors a...

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• On the Trail of Long COVID

  Von Megan A. Leivant|March 30, 2021|English

  A sense of optimism is growing around society’s recovery from the COVID‑19 pandemic, draped against a background of effective vaccine development and its widespread rollout. While clinicians have a better understanding of COVID‑19 disease, science...

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  The EEOC’s 2020 Employee Charges and Emerging Issues

  Von Alice Zelikson and Jeff Weisel |March 29, 2021|English

  The 2020 numbers from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) were recently released. There were 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination made to the agency in the 2020 fiscal year.1 That’s a decline from 2019’s 72,675...

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  U.S. Population Shift - De-Urbanization and What It Means to Insurers

  Von Lonnie Van Houten |March 25, 2021|English

  We are now more than a year into the COVID‑19 pandemic, and social distancing, masks and hand sanitizers are still the norm. Many workers, such as those in the service and hospitality industries, don’t have the luxury of working remotely, causing...

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• If Business Interruption Is the Tip of the COVID-19 Iceberg, Are Professional Liability Claims Waiting Below?

  Von Jeff Markowski|March 16, 2021|English

  Early COVID‑19 lawsuits are being dominated by insurance claims for Business Interruption coverage, workplace safety and civil rights actions. Are these cases just the tip of the iceberg? Thus far we’re not seeing the same inundation of cases...

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  Replacing Lost Data for Accelerated Underwriting of Life Insurance Applications

  Von Jean-Marc Fix |March 15, 2021|English

  One of the hardest challenges Life insurers encounter when adopting accelerated underwriting (AU) is figuring out how to compensate for the loss of information previously derived from blood and urine tests. It’s been the case that insurance exams...

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