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Exercise and Mortality - How Many Steps Translate Into Longer Life?

Von Ross Campbell |March 06, 2017|English

Fitness trackers can be a convenient way to monitor the number of steps taken every day. Some insurers have even started using them as a proxy for good health, selling life cover to people who are already fit and who track their steps. They may even...
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How the Environment Will Change for Life Insurers - And Ways to Cope

Von Jules Constantinou |February 21, 2017|English

The life insurance business might be seen as a steadfast boulder awash in a fast-flowing stream of change, yet the Greek philosopher Socrates taught us that the secret of change is to focus energy on building the new and not fighting the old. Indeed,...
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Insurers Shouldn’t Stigmatize Epilepsy

Von Anke Siebers |February 13, 2017|English | Deutsch

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that can affect people of all ages. According to the WHO, some 50 million people around the world have epilepsy and an estimated 2.4 million new diagnoses are made each year. The condition has significant implications...
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Advances in Cancer Research and Insurance

Von Ross Campbell |February 02, 2017|English

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was created more than 50 years ago to foster global collaboration on cancer control. Today more effective therapies mean mortality rates no longer reflect incidence rates; there are now more cancer...
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Keeping Workers Safe From Cancer - Will EU Proposals Cut Cancer Rates?

Von Dr. Chris Ball |January 25, 2017|English

Cancer arising from workplace exposure has a long history. The earliest recognised form of occupational cancer in the world is Chimney sweep’s carcinoma, cancer of the skin of the scrotum, first described in England in 1775. In many workplaces...
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Trends in Life Insurance - How Can the Industry Stay Fit for the Future?

Von Peter Temple |January 09, 2017|English

Life insurers are facing a new world in which the nature of uncertainty itself is changing. The future is collapsing into the present faster than past data can be used to extrapolate the future. However, we shouldn’t be fearful. InsurTech (insurance...
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