Underwriting

Anne Llewellyn examines the consequences and underwriting ramifications of this little known disease.

Swiss Re believes the insurance and reinsurance sectors will continue their "U-shaped" recoveries in 2010 alongside the major global economies.

With the Law Commission's reform of insurance contract law almost complete - is the industry ready for change? Will the new law reflect the current industry practice and last another 100 years, asks Gill Salton?

Unum has announced the roll out of its ‘intelligent' electronic underwriting system, UnumOnline, for financial advisers

Disability claims are needlessly rising and likely to continue doing so, it has been argued.

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder which varies in severity from mild to life threatening and can therefore be of little or great significance for life and disability cover.

Since April we have been hearing growing reports of a new strain of influenza virus, officially named 'H1N1' and, more commonly, 'swine flu'. Fergus Bescoby asks: What does it all mean to the insurance industry?

Capita Financial Software's research arm, Synaptic, has launched a new area of Synaptic Product Research, enabling advisers to research and recommend locum insurance products, which are designed to cover the costs of absence for medical professionals....

Today's culture bombards us with images of unrealistic expectations of how we should all look, so what does it mean for insurers as more and more people, females in particular, are subjecting their bodies to a strategy of dietary abuse?

An influential protection IFA has said he is willing to take a less commission by using only those insurers offering ‘Big T' tele-underwriting.