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  • August 2020
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Positioning for the "New Normal" : RGA's Global Life and Health Underwriting Survey

By
  • Nic Lempriere-Hogg
  • Daniel Lyons
  • Leigh Allen
  • Hamza Shaiban
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In Brief

That was the chief finding from a wide-ranging RGA survey from 2019, and the impact of COVID-19 seems likely to only reinforce these trends. Now, more than ever, consumers are demanding modernization, and those insurers demonstrate greater technical agility, increased consumer-centricity, more creative use of data, and greater cost efficiency are at an advantage.

An underwriting transformation is gathering speed at large, multinational life and health insurers, with change becoming a “new normal.” That was the chief finding from a wide-ranging RGA survey from 2019, and the impact of COVID-19 seems likely to only reinforce these trends. Now, more than ever, consumers are demanding modernization, and those insurers demonstrate greater technical agility, increased consumer-centricity, more creative use of data, and greater cost efficiency are at an advantage.

Global Health and Life UW Survey Infographic

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Meet the Authors & Experts

Author
Nic Lempriere-Hogg
Senior Vice President (ret.), Underwriting Divisional Functional Leader
Dan Lyons
Author
Daniel Lyons
Vice President, Business Initiatives, Global Accounts
Leign Allen
Author
Leigh Allen
Associate Vice President, Strategic Survey Research, Global Actuarial Pricing and Research 
Hamza Shaiban
Author
Hamza Shaiban
Senior Analyst, Business Initiatives, Global Accounts