Six Things: January 18th, 2022

The Genomics Revolution in Life and Health. Plus, top 5 P&C insurance trends in 2022; keeping the human element in AI; the evolution of leadership intelligence; and more.

Insurance Thought Leadership

January 18, 2022

The Genomics Revolution in Life and Health

Paul Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of ITL

What if life insurers could help all policyholders with cancer live at least two years longer than they would have otherwise? Just imagine what that sort of breakthrough would do to how people perceive life insurance, while delivering massive gains in profitability to the insurers.

“We think that is doable, today,” Greig Woodring, the longtime CEO of RGA, told me when we talked recently about the future of life insurance and, in particular, the phenomenal potential of genomics.

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