Category: News and articles

In our articles on wearables and insurance products we highlight that some insurers, in addition to the step count measured by a wearable device, also use sleep duration as one…

Do you know a Jigglypuff from a Squirtle? If not then you may have missed one of the biggest things of 2016. Pokémon GO was one of the most popular…

We have written before about wearables from a number of different angles, including Gary’s perspective as an owner in August 2015. Time for an update. It’s now almost eighteen months…

We have written about wearable devices several times now and have concentrated mainly on the user’s perspective. Now we write about how insurers are incorporating wearables and the data they…

So far in our articles we have been pretty positive about all aspects of e-health, digital health, e-medicine, wearable devices, etc, and what these will bring. And of course Gary…

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has just published a study the findings of which suggest that replacing saturated fats with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid does not reduce the…

The process of life and disability underwriting varies from market to market. Those variations as they exist today have been driven by the prevalence of risk factors and the availability…

Maybe this is a sign of how far rules engines have come. Historically an insurer’s underwriting philosophy was documented in an underwriting manual, provided by a reinsurer or produced by…

Yes, another article on data and technology. We make no apology for this: it seems to be the subject of the moment within our industry (no bad thing) and we…

Gary has now had his Fitbit HR for about three months and, as promised, here is an update. As I reported before, the device really does show how much variation…