Insurance Underwriting

Catalog description

Introduces fundamental underwriting objectives and techniques across multiple lines of the insurance business—including life, health, accident, annuity, property, and casualty. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to apply risk analysis methodologies to pricing, negotiating, and client service. Integrates the most current tools and trends in analytics that have and will become essential to the underwriting process. Analyzes the impact of insurtech on the insurance industry, identifying applied practices that may transform underwriting. Examines decision science principles, to enable students to better understand how to select data for underwriting evaluation.