Life

Mortality modeling is a practice that is gaining popularity among life insurers and annuity providers.

The Verisk COVID-19 Projection Tool is publicly available to enhance understanding of potential infections and deaths.

Machine learning (ML) is emerging as a useful, though complex, tool supporting automation and advanced risk analytics.

Heart disease and cancer are the first and second leading causes of death today in the United States (and most of developed countries), thanks to continuous improvements in infectious disease mortality since late 1930s.

As science and technology improve, we should expect life expectancy to logically follow suit—so why has life expectancy dropped in the U.S.?