Life Insurance Underwriting in 2022

Within the last two years major changes have occurred in the way a typical Arizona term life insurance policy is underwritten. Pre-COVID, life insurance companies, employing a rules-based approach, would start with assumptions of risk and predict an outcome. Today, many insurers are now using a predictive model-based strategy. Predictive models begin with outcomes and […]

How Much Disability Insurance to Buy?

Rarely will you find an individual on disability claim that believes they bought too much disability insurance. Typically, the opposite is true, the disability policyholder wishing they bought more coverage, not less. During a disability claim it is common for expenses to increase while income decreases. Issue and participation tables are used in the individual […]