The future of underwriting

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A clearer process

The latest COVERThink Tank putthe future ofunderwritingunder thespotlight.Peter Madiganreports Angela Faherty: What stage is the protection market at with its underwriting processes? Jason King: Talking from a distributor's perspective, I don't really feel that underwriting has changed much in the last couple of decades. We still have a high number of GP reports being requested, which gives us problems with getting information through quickly. Anything other than very 'clean lives' are very difficult to underwrite. With all the online systems we currently have, a clean ...

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