Highlights of the Pacific Life 2025 Underwriting Symposium - Part One: The State of the Art

 Once again, Susan Ghalili, Senior Vice President, Underwriting Strategy & Chief Underwriter, and the Pacific Life team put together an excellent slate of topics and panelists for the Pacific Life 2025 Underwriting Symposium. The topics discussed were foremost in the minds of all attendees concerning the current and future state of the life insurance industry, especially as it relates to underwriting. Most platform discussions were in a panel format with panelists from Pacific Life, Distribution, Reinsurance, Medical Directors, and Technology contributing and participating. This is "P...

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Highlights of the Pacific Life 2024 Underwriting Symposium

The 2024 Pacific Life Underwriting Symposium took place recently with an excellent slate of discussion topics and life insurance industry representation.  Most platform discussions were in a panel format with Pacific Life, Distribution, Reinsurance, Retrocessionaire and Technology representatives contributing and participating. It's not often that we have the opportunity to pull together important life industry players to exchange views on critical and relevant underwriting topics that impact our businesses.  Congratulations go to Susan Ghalili and her team at Pacific Life for being ...

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Underwriting Enhancements & Case Design Tips to Help You Sell in the Foreign National Market

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list" - Susan Sontag High net worth individuals and families exist all over the world.  In today's global economy, you probably have clients with friends or relatives living abroad who are looking to buy life insurance from U.S. based companies. Whether for business planning, wealth transfer, legacy planning, wealth accumulation or family protection, many foreign nationals are motivated by having monies outside their country of residence.  They desire the stability of US dollar denominated coverage, asset diversification and protection again...

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