Articles June 2018
Community, Connected: New Technology Addresses the Challenge of an Aging World
The challenges presented by aging populations extend far beyond North America. The world is facing a situation without precedent: soon, the elderly will outnumber children as a proportion of the global population. Explore how the insurance industry can respond.  Read More
Articles June 2018
Fraud Protection

Mark S. Dion, RGA's Vice President of Strategic Underwriting Innovation, dis...

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Articles June 2018
Science of Life: Genomics

Testing Boom: Experts witnessed a spike in gen...

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Articles June 2018
Case Management: Managing Mental Health Claims Costs
As awareness of mental health issues grows, insurers are witnessing a corresponding demand for coverage.
Contact us to discuss mental health, case management, and other value-added services. Read More
Articles June 2018
Developing a Successful Acceleration Road Map: Implementing Accelerated Underwriting

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve risk insights. It is never too ea...

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Articles June 2018
Extreme Sports, Extreme Underwriting?
Many extreme sports have grown in popularity and evolved to become more hazardous. Some are un-regulated, or occasionally governing bodies are reluctant to release injury and fatality figures, making it hard to establish appropriate morbidity and mortality rates. What s... Read More
Articles June 2018
Opinion: Distance Running Makes Me a Better Actuary
Ten reasons why running may make you a better actuary —  advice for work and life from RGA's Ronald Poon-Affat.  Contact RGA to learn more about insurance careers, our culture, and our mission.  Read More
Articles June 2018
Busted: Top Five Myths About Accelerated Underwriting - I’ve Already Missed the Boat

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve risk insights. It is never too ea...

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100 Percent Acceleration
Articles June 2018
Busted: Top Five Myths About Accelerated Underwriting - I Can Get to a 100% Acceleration Rate

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve risk insights. It is never too ea...

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Articles June 2018
Busted: Top Five Myths About Accelerated Underwriting - There Will No Longer Be a Need for Underwriting Staff

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve risk insights. It is never too ea...

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Accelerated Underwriting Scale
Articles June 2018
Busted: Top Five Myths About Accelerated Underwriting - You Have to Go Big or Go Home

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve ri...

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Articles May 2018
Busted: Top Five Myths About Accelerated Underwriting: Have You Missed the Boat on Acceleration? Small Steps Can Make a Big Difference.

As insurers develop accelerated underwriting programs and take steps toward more efficient processes, lower costs, and a streamlined customer experience, innovations across the insurance industry are helping to improve risk insights. It is never too ea...

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Articles May 2018
Fraud and Your 2018 Resolution Mid-year Check-up

Are you interested in learning the latest fraud tactics and prevention methods? Save the date for the RGA Fraud Conference, taking place August 18-20, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Articles May 2018
Finding the Balance: Achieving Accurate Assessment of Foreign Travel Risk

Writer Samuel Johnson’s observation about travel, written centuries ago, is more relevant than ever: "The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." RGA has released its 2018 Foreign Ri...

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Articles May 2018
Chronic Kidney Disease: Improving Outcomes, Decreasing Costs
A high-touch approach to CKD can provide a significant reduction in claims costs and, more importantly, improve medical outcomes and provide a better quality of life for the people insurers serve. Read More
Articles May 2018
Understanding the Genetics of Cancer

Complicated pathology reports can contain significant amounts of genetic information. It has become vital for insurance company medical directors, underwriters, and claims professionals to understand "driver mutations" present in, or absent from, a tumor's genom...

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Articles May 2018
Hepatitis B Update
Although the hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) has been administered routinely at birth in the United States since 1991, the infection remains a global health hazard. Hepatitis B is frequently asymptomatic, so many acutely and chronically infected patients may be unaw...
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Articles May 2018
The Evolution of the Definition of Myocardial Infarction

Medical advances have led to an evolving definition of myocardial infarction. Once considered inevitably fatal, the condition is now survivable, and improvements in diagnosis have implications for pricing, underwriting, and claims models. This article trace...

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Articles May 2018
Big Ideas: Startups Aim to Define Future of Insurance

Now in its second year, the RGAX Big Ideas Competition helps to uncover ideas that will invigorate the life, health insurance and retirement industries. Applicants pitch concepts to a ‘Dragons Den' style panel of judges for the chance to work with a global insur...

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Middle East businessmen in twilight
Articles May 2018
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." That is certainly the case in the MENA (Middle East-North Africa) life insurance markets in the wake the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, and lower oil prices.... Read More