Health care

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has launched a consultation on how its next model should incorporate mortality data for 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak.

There were 700 more deaths in England and Wales during weeks 33 and 34 of this year than in the correspondng period for 2019, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.

There have been fewer deaths in England and Wales than would normally be expected at this time of the year for the eighth week in a row, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.

Australians are “panic buying” life insurance products amid growing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by GlobalData.

UK insurers have paid £90m to the families of people who have died due to COVID-19, according to new figures, which is equivalent to £980,000 every day.

There have been fewer deaths in England and Wales than would normally be expected for the sixth week in a row, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.

Kira Henshaw, Corina Constantinescu and Olivier Menoukeu Pamen investigate the effects of spousal death on the surviving partner’s mortality – and how their model could be applied to disease outbreaks in closed communities such as care homes

Peter Joshi asks: what are the actuarial implications of the Human Genome Project?

Niel Daniels shares the E-cigarettes Working Party’s work on the risk profile of e-cigarette users, and how the insurance industry could respond

The severe impact of COVID-19 on Thailand's economy will see the country's non-life insurance market contract by 5.6% this year, forecasts by GlobalData suggest.